I’ve been too busy to watch teevee. Does it still suck?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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I have almost completely stopped watching. I listen to WXPN durring the day a lot though.
our tv set has been unplugged for years. Don’t miss it.
Feeling…saner now?
More awake?
I hope so.
Lay off for three weeks and see what happens.
Try it.
You be bettah off.
AG
Still recording Battlestar Galactica but haven’t watched any of the episodes. Haven’t watched network TV other than morning news for years.
Hasn’t been the same since they cancelled The Honeymooners in ’56
Like a quantum singularity.
The one-word answerman: Yup.
Booman,
I watched a bunch of video from Netroots Nation. We’ve got all the smart people on our side. The conservatives are screwed.
Especially considering reports like the top diary on Big Orange right now, that the GOP had to call off their Nevada state convention for lack of interest. (They could only raise half of what they needed for a quorum to conduct business.)
While you were away they made teevee fucking great!
Its smart, funny, informative and provides perspective and thoughtful analysis. Oh, and any celebrity that who makes over 1 million dollars per month has decided to donate half his/her income to improving education and nutrition for kids and the other half to cleaning up our planet.
Thank you for that report from whatever planet you happen to have mailed that in from.
oh, did I say something?
I’ve spent the last couple of hours with the TV on half-watching documentaries about the US Mint. In an hour they’re going to be what I suspect is the finale of one of our family’s favorite series, Avatar: The Last Airbender.
There’s stuff worth watching on TV, or at least stuff that won’t rot your brain. But you still have to know when and where it is (and have a TiVo or other PVR to really take advatage of it), and there’s still way too much of “fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on.”
TV? Was there ever a time when it didn’t suck? My memory of it goes back to the bingo year of 1948 when every working-class family went out and got themselves hooked up to the tubes, the net you could say. I haven’t had one now for nearly 18 years. I don’t have the impression that I’ve missed anything. My last image was of general Schwarzkopf going on and on about the Gulf War. So what else is new. Another Bush, another war, better yet, two wars and a third peaking around the corner.
I guess a third war might also be peeking around the corner.
I would imagine so, but can’t give you a definite. I haven’t watched tv for the last fourteen years, with the exception of a little Comedy Central now and then.