Television has become predictable and boring. 500 channels and nothing’s on. The next great thing on television isn’t on TV. It isn’t just network television which has become banal, boring, and bad. Cable television suffers from the same intrinsic defect. Originality ended with Robin Williams as Mork. The times, they are a changing, and the … Read More »

This is a question that changes through the years. From what sources do you get your daily supply of the news? Is it the daily or weekly newspaper? How about television news, such as CNN, Fox News, or the NBC Nightly News? Is it The Daily Show with Jon Stewart? If you’re wired to the … Read More »

In the age of privacy concerns, nobody likes to be spied upon. Like it or don’t, Big Brother Google is spying on us. Do you mind? Do you Google? The most popular of the world’s internet search engines, by far, is Google. It’s simple. It’s free. It works. Mostly. Google is so popular and has … Read More »

I watched two more television shows without laugh tracks last night. If there’s no laugh track telling me to laugh is it still a funny show? I have my doubts. The laugh track has been around since the beginning of commercial television networks. Early comedy shows had an audience. When something funny happened, the audience … Read More »

How much do we really know about what we think we know? For example, what do we really know about the politicians who run the country? It’s easy enough to say that they’re all crooks, whether local, state, or federal politicians. Surely there’s one or two politicians not on the take, or corrupt, or involved … Read More »

I can’t tell you exactly what happened because Sunday was a day like any other day. I woke up. Somewhere between going to sleep and waking up I lost five years. Somehow, from the time I went to sleep the night before, to the time shortly after I woke up, most of the details of … Read More »