Shelter From the Storm: The Kardashian Debacle

There's been enough damage in the last two months — physical, emotional, collateral — to drive anyone crazy. Hurricane? Check. Crazy economy. Got it. Freak snow storm. Ummm, sure? Kids' endless homework assignments? On it. Every day, you just keep putting one foot in front of the other, scratching things off the list and trying to make sense of it all.

It's been roughly 72 days of mayhem. You and your spouse might have differences, but are they irreconcilable? Are you splitting up because he wants to keep some of the furniture from the basement that flooded in August and you want to redo the master bedroom that was split by that big oak in the front yard last Saturday? 

Kim Kardashian, the young woman famous for being famous and then famously cashed in with surprising entrepreneurial acuity, allegedly was smitten with New Jersey Nets power forward Kris Humphries (after she flamed out with actors, former Heisman-trophy winners and "filmmakers"). A few months worth of photo ops at Nets games in Newark and in a variety of paparazzi-friendly Manhattan and he popped the question.

Their made-for-TV wedding, "Kim's Fairytale Wedding", broadcast over two nights, drew 10.5 million viewers.The highest-rated GOP Presidential Debate drew 5.1 million. But this wedding generated more cash than a GOP rubber-chicken dinner in Houston. A variety of reports in the media say the wedding, which leaned largely on the largesse of publicity-starved designers, caterers and limo companies netted the couple a cool $18 million.

Now, just more than two months removed from the walk down the aisle (and more costume changes than a Vegas review), these crazy kids have decided to call it quits. Apparently, Kardashian has had it with her ballplayer husband, who hasn't figured out how to hustle after anything more than rebounds.

So, as you try to stretch your dollars beyond the laws of physics and keep juggling life in suburbia, we just have a couple of questions: What the hell is wrong with us? Do we just love — or need — good escapism, regardless of its inanity? And, most importantly, did they go too far this time?

In the spirit of giving you a diversion, take five seconds and let us know if you've spent five seconds laughing, gawking or getting annoyed by this little slice of "reality".