The guy in the first video, David Spates, is pretty funny. I'd rather not watch his commentary while he's sitting on a toilet, but I guess it could be worse.

I hadn't seen the Ellen video. I'm not a daytime talk-TV kinda person. But now that I've seen it, my first thought it, "What in the ever-loving was Ellen thinking?" That was not professional. That's lose-your-show material right there.

Whatever the merits of Ellen's side, it is a personal matter. She shouldn't have used her show as a forum or sounding board for making a plea to some small company. The viewing public should not have been pulled into it. It's not our business.

Ellen, did you know there's a war on? People losing limbs and lives daily? Billions of dollars flushed down the toilet? Tens of thousands of people still displaced by Katrina? Inflation and a recession? The dollar at its lowest against the Euro ever? Widespread government corruption? Really screwed-up immigration policies? Crumbling infrastructure? 120 people blown up in Pakistan? Hundreds "disappeared" in Myanmar? Millions displaced by the Ganges Dam fiasco in China? Deformed Iraqi children poisoned by depleted-uranium munitions? Continued bloodshed in Sudan? Kidnapping and human trafficking throughout Eastern Europe and Asia? An ongoing massacre and land-grab in East Jerusalem? An impending crisis involving Turkey and the Kurdish border? Spine-chilling saber rattling involving the U.S., Iran and Russia? To name but a few issues...

And you're crying about a dog that's still alive, and some sad kids who can easily bond with another doggie?

Jeez woman, what meds are you on? Or off?

As much as it creeps me out to give props to some guy sitting on a toilet, this guy totally nails the whole situation.