"Kid Nation" gets a hall pass

CBS, hellbent to deprive children of valuable education time, has seen fit to bum-rush our nation’s schools and foist screeners of “Kid Nation” – which wrested its participants from their educational experiences for 40 days this past spring so that they could drink bleach whilst unsupervised – upon students, who immediately demanded to know, “Will we be tested on this?”

Interesting that those scamps at CBS were able to make advance screeners available to kids across the country, but somehow couldn’t manage to get them into the hands of critics. But the show is no doubt getting the sort of buzz amongst the pre-adolescent set that network honchos can only dream about: “It was so much better than the history lecture on the Battle of Anzio we would’ve sat through in its place.”