Stop Acting Like a Complete Idiot

Lyndsey Buckingham, 21, (female and therefore not Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham) would — if she could — say to her dad, "... if you have any love for me and my brother then stop acting like a complete idiot." In this case daddy is a pretend British lord who was shipped off to the States for passport fraud and, since being released from prison, is ignoring his children.

Coincidentally, another "fictional" dad is also being taken to task. To pad Dr. Seuss's original Horton and the Who adventures into something screen length (ostensibly the No. 1 money making movie) and $10 popcorn bucket-worthy, screenwriters have added a subplot to an elephant saving a world. Now, the Mayor of Whoville ignores 96 daughters to make nice-nice with sole sonny-boy. At least one dad is near apoplectic at the slight to [his] daughters.

And speaking of stupid dads — as if that is even close to an accurate description — we must stop in to say WHAT ARE YOU THINKING to Oz Pop John Deaves, 61, who is on his second child with his 39-year-old daughter.

So, yes, it is important that father's pay heed to their children and that they not slight their double-x chromosome offspring. BUT attention is not the same as insanity.

** "You are so annoying, daddy," say Thing 1 and 2. If only they knew .... And hopefully they never will." **