Anderson Cooper agrees with me . . .

Under "Guilty Pleasures" in this week's Entertainment Weekly he says . . . "I TiVo a lot of shows on MTV-- stuff like My Super Sweet Sixteen that's jaw dropping and mind-numbing . . . On the second season of Super Sweet Sixteen, all the really horrible girls had seen the first season and were trying to top them in horribleness . . . "

Oh, Anderson, you Prada-clad moral compass, you! Truer words were never spoken. The girls and uh, yeah, "DIVO" boys on that show never cease to amaze me with their ridiculousness. But the saddest thought of all is that their parents not only fund these parties, they created the little monsters in the first place.

(I have to grant a huge exception to Cee-lo and his wife. Their daughter's party was recinded until she buckled down and got her grades back up; and they certainly didn't take any crap from her.)

And lastly, because it must be said . . . did Pebbles really have to get an attitude when her son described her as an 80's music star? 'Cause I do recall scheming with Dagian Cooper on her dad's Benz so that we could ride around playing "Mercedes Boy". And uh, yeah, I'll say it. I graduated in '88!

On a serious note, if you look at shows like this and Laguna Beach, which totally sucked me in . . . you can see the crisis we're headed toward with girls in America. WHY do so many parents let their kids be so AWFUL to one another? This "mean girls" crap needs to be nipped in the bud; you can be "Alpha" and still be nice. The two are not mutually exclusive.