Posted by: Kermit
on Jun 30, 2009
There's a guy walking around in the backyard checking for the buried cable. I'm about to do something I haven't done for 25 years. Pay for television.
I remember back in the 60s when cable was first getting started. There were PSAs on TV about the eeevils of "pay TV". One had a TV with a coin box that had big sharp teeth. Perhaps that scared my young psyche.
Americans watch too damn much TV. It is a passive activity which does little to encourage intellectual development. In many cases it does the exact opposite. Between modern "sitcoms" and "reality" shows, the vast wasteland has become vaster and much more wasteful. I never could see the benefit of spending hard-earned money on it.
