DR MattH, don't even bother with AS THE WORLD TURNS, whose logic and poor writing leave me in awe; they're all tied up in the kidnapped baby plot. Never have the cities of New York and Chicago been so conveniently located: people turn up in the blink of an eye in either city, and on today's episode there are four principals, one of them the mother of a kidnapped child, in Central Park dealing with baby kidnappers and a plot to sell her kidnapped child. WHERE THE HELL ARE THE POLICE OR THE FBI?

Is the soap too cheap to hire extra actors? And why does Central Park, with no traffic and no crowds, look like it's somewhere in Yosemite instad of Manhattan? Does no one at CBS care about the idiocy of any of this?
It isn't as moronic as the plots on PASSIONS, the queerest soap ever written by a demented queen and way too full of his psychosexual hangups, but I don't know why soap writing is generaly so inept.
The good news is I just got a check today, so I'm off to the bank.