My wife has recently become obsessed with the show Catfish . The show features Nev and Max chasing downing catfish, the former motivated by the fact that he was himself once catfished. For those who aren't aware, catfishing is basically deceiving someone while carrying on a relationship, romantic or otherwise, online. For instance, you think you've been talking to an attractive 18-year-old white girl, but you've actually been talking to a 47-year-old black dude. Sometimes it's a con-artist trying to get money. Sometimes it's just a lonely teenager trying to make friends. I must admit that it is an addicting show, almost in the "I-can't-look-away-from-a-car-wreck" sense. It's not that the show is poorly made, but rather it is the real people featured on this program that act as the spectacle from which I cannot avert my eyes. At the end of almost every episode I find myself thinking, "What is wrong with these people?" These...