When doing good does no good

Sign of the times: "The biggest house that ABC's 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' ever made over - a sprawling, four-bedroom starter castle, a three-car garage mahal with a turret and all -- has gone into foreclosure."

(Aren't you nostalgic for the Depression these days?)

The Washington Post's Hank Stuever then eloquently scolds us all:

"You could (and will) say the (family that lost the home) had it coming, but really, we all had this coming. One thing we'll always remember about this decade was the constant home do-over fetish, in real life and in the reality of reality TV -- the constant warping of the consumer's sense of entitlement, the fairy-dust economics, the MasterCard reminder that the experience is priceless. We'll look back and think of all the time we spent watching shows where people flipped houses for easy profit, or traded spaces, or designed it to sell, or were led into rooms blindfolded to experience the paroxysms that came with new paint, new furniture, new life. ...

"Bring on Extreme Failure," he concludes.

Isn't it here already?