A tool or technique that makes some aspect of one's life easier or more efficient.

in a restaurant, to go or ala carte

Eavesdropping on a conversation that you have no business hearing.

When an elder member of the human race doesn't feel the need to wait in line. (usually a buffet of some type) Either because their time is running out, or they have given up on any social grace.

Drinking alcohol so as to have some excuse at a later date for the actions you might get into.

As an art movement, lifestyle, or literature and film genre, kitsch is pleasingly distasteful. It's melodramatic, overdone, gaudy and tacky or sentimental and folksy. It's so bad that it's cool. Your cat might attack it, but it's hot.
And, no, Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer are NOT bad enough to be kitsch. At all. Paris and Nicole though...