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And Not A Thing To Watch

You might not know it but there are other things going on in the world today besides the Presidential election. Heck, there’s even other things happening in the United States. You might not know it if you’re watching CNN. CNN seems to have become the All-Election-All-The-Time channel with hourly updates on polls and predictions about how the next primary is going to turn out. Every second of the day has a Democratic or Republican candidate plastered on the screen and if there’s nothing new, well, CNN will find some sound-byte to make controversial and start playing it every fifteen minutes.

I was so happy when there was breaking news about Britney Spears and I can’t even stand her and I don’t understand why anyone thinks she’s news. Yet, I was ecstatic that CNN was acknowledging that there was more to life than the election. For God’s sake, it’s only January! It’s going to be a long year if they intend to continue this ridiculousness.

And to make it worse, there’s really not much else on t.v. to watch, or rather, that’s increasingly becoming the case. The writers’ strike has been going on and on forever. They’ve revived American Gladiators. Will someone please give the writers what they want? No one wants American Gladiators or worse. And I’ve started watching shows I normally wouldn’t watch — Medium, HOUSE, NCIS, Biggest Loser. I even have a design show from HGtv set to record on my DVR. I watched Legally Blonde 2 twice this weekend! It’s one thing to watch crappy t.v. because I want to but I shouldn’t have to be forced to — that’s why I pay the big bucks for all of those channels, including 2 CNNs!

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Published:: 14.01.08 / 4pm

Category:: Life, T.V. Brain Drain

Social Tags:: 2008 Presidential election • American Gladiators • Biggest Loser • Britney Spears • CNN • HGtv • HOUSE • Medium • NCIS • writers' strike

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The pollsters and the media are trying to convince us that we’ve already made up our minds. Hillary and Rudy are “ahead.” Barack and Fred are in “second-place.” Edwards and McCain are “trailing.”

Doesn’t all this sort of make you feel that the process is a fait accompli? Not one vote has been cast, yet so many commentators and news analysts are already talking as if it’s a foregone conclusion who the nominees are going to be.

I actually heard Tim Russert say on the radio last week that the 2008 Presidential election was going to be over in two months! The implication being that once Iowa and New Hampshire are done voting, there’s no point in the rest of us showing up again until November!

So as you are considering WHO you are going to vote for (please promise me you’ll vote), I’m curious HOW you’re going to arrive at your decision.

Will you vote by consensus or by conscience?

Talk about talk (Third World County)

Many people exercise common sense when formulating their comments. I can appreciate that. Some exercise their sense of humor, and I can appreciate that, usually no matter how weird their sense of humor* may be. Others, and they are few indeed, actually learned in school or elsewhere how to make clear, reasoned arguments. Rare, and greatly appreciated. People I stand to learn much from.

But some just have no business even having an opinion, because they are both too ill-informed and are idiots (usually, as I have said elsewhere, self-made idiots), unable to recognize the value (or even the existence) of arguments from facts or reason, taking their preconceptual biases as fact and building a “reality-based” fantasyland of idiotarian unreason on that shaky foundation.

Sen. Leahy on the Mukasey Nomination (Buck Naked Politics)

Nothing is more fundamental to our constitutional democracy than our basic notion that no one is above the law. This Administration has undercut that precept time after time. They are now trying to do it again, with an issue as fundamental as whether the United States of America will join the ranks of those governments that approve of torture. This President and Vice President should not be allowed to violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions or disregard U.S. statutes such as our Detainee Treatment Act and War Crimes Act. They should not be allowed to overturn more than 200 years of our Nation’s human rights and moral leadership around the world.

Show me some smarts ( pesky’apostrophe)

See, if I were going to task a committee on finding out if abortion negatively impacts women…I probably wouldn’t start with the answer Blunt is hoping to get. Rather, I would start with this: what impacts women more negatively - having an abortion or giving birth to an unwanted child. And then you could also look at the impact on children of being born into a situation where they’re not wanted. Were they kept or put up for adoption? Did they get adopted or did they end up in the juvenile authority system? Regardless of where they ended up, how did they fare against kids who were planned and/or wanted in terms of school, social skills, etc.? You know, I’d try to make it focused on finding an answer to a question, rather than asking the questions to get a specific answer.

Lulu 15.01.08 / 10am

Oh boy, do I feel your pain! Luckily, new episodes of Ugly Betty and Grey’s Anatomy were on last week…and I think this week, too.

As for HGTV, I’ve been watching it almost 24/7 these days. Luckily, I find the shows pretty interesting. Sell This House is one of my favorites. And this past weekend, there was a show on TLC (I think) called Flip This House that was pretty good. Heck, I’ve even resorted to watching Carson Kressley’s new show - How to Look Good Naked. Geez.

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J. Lynne 15.01.08 / 3pm

I used to like that house flipping show where the expert comes on and gives advice to the new flipper(s) and then the new flipper does whatever he/she wants anyway and goes way over budget and time and you get to watch him/her dig their hole deeper and deeper and then you get to see the finished product and what people think of the house. Then sometimes it doesn’t sell by the end of the show.

Those Sell This House shows got to be too painful for me because sometimes the people don’t sell their houses and they aren’t flippers and there was just too much personal need involved.

I will watch the flipping shows though. They give me ideas for small redo’s for my house, which was a flipped house, btw. I also like Vern Yip and Design on a Dime. There’s another budget design group that I like on there too. However, HGtv keeps changing their schedule.

Sadly, I’ve put HOUSE at the head of my Netflix queue. Well, right now the DVDs are every other one. I’m not even that excited about my Netflix queue which has about 100 DVDs in it.

*sigh*

Erik Jensen 03.04.08 / 4am

That is why I stopped watching news in TV for more than two years now. I prefer visiting news website and listening to podcast for daily news and current events. I have a feeling that I am just wasting my time watching news in TV.

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