Try flipping through the video void any day without landing in the numerical region inhabited by "reality" talk-show TV – Montel, Maury Povich, Sally-Jesse, Ricki Lake, and so on. Whether they had all synchronized their programming schedules or not, on this particular afternoon, every single one of them featured paternity suits. Has anyone here ever seen one of these? There's one woman versus two or three sweating, nervous guys all waiting to find out – thanks ...
... experiences good or bad shake their heads and testify that they, too, have been there and have done that. In fact, as an affirmation "been there, done that" is about as close to a confessional as most "Busters" will ever come (except, of course, for the Ricki Lake Show). In postmodern Buster culture, "been there, done that" is a stock phrase that can either be a sincere affirmation or a flip dismissal. Likewise "Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden" was an idiomatic phrase in Jesus' day. He was ...
