After 9/11 I stopped watching television. I unplugged the cable and stopped reading American news. I was disgusted. The sensationalism that had been happening was nothing compared to what that day brought on. No respect for human suffering. No respect for the dead. It was one big sweeps event, with each channel trying to outdo each other with pictures and video of people dying while trying to escape the fire. People dead on the ground. Replaying video of the planes as they hit the buildings as if it were a gag reel. I had enough. Over the years I kept up on the latest news by surfing the web. What I found is that American news were blips of static. Just enough noise to make you look, but nothing of substance. The stories were biased, the information was misleading and the news was missing many stories we needed to see. Fox news spoon fed the nation propaganda and lies, while the rest stood there silently.

Seven years of learning about the truth from the outside also made me feel like an outsider. Television shows that people raved about I could only look up on the internet. Jake resorted to renting series and I lived for the snippits from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. After some deep thought I decided that it was time to bring the television back into play. A lot has changed since the days of the OJ trial and 9/11. Fox News was laughed at. The Daily Show opened peoples eyes to the irony and misinformation that was abound. More importantly I was curious. I wanted to step back into the televised discussion. I had decided that it was okay to watch the news as long as you know there are other options. I'm not expecting everything to be different. It will be more of the same on many stations. It will just be nice to see it in it's entirety instead of searching for parts 1, 2 and 3 online. Come tomorrow evening I'll be hooked back in to the televised world and see what it can offer. Go me!

I'm not a huge Letterman fan, but he really slammed Coulter for her 'Clinton is gay' comment.

After an exhausting weekend of cleaning house we decided to go to Best Buy to drool at the big screen TVs. After wandering past the 50" movie screen sized TVs we started looking at the *smaller* ones. By smaller I mean 40 - 42". We walked pasted the a few and noticed one with a pretty decent pricetag. Decent for someone in a higher income bracket, that is... For me it was reachable. The 12 months of no finance charges made it doable. After two more walk throughs we bought it. I paid the guy and he left to get our brand spanking new TV we didn't really need. Five minutes later he came back... empty handed. Apparently the three in stock weren't in stock. Since it was new they didn't have many. I was told to come back on Thursday. So Sunday we put the new stand together and dreampt about it. By Tuesday Jake was going nuts. After pointing out the slip said nothing about picking up we started calling the store. After 30 minutes getting hung up on, transferred to a voicemail that was full and being put on terminal hold I panicked. We threw on some clothes and headed to Best Buy. Luckily the salesguy was there.

We waited for him to finish up and then recounted what happened (no way was I letting that much time slide). He did the usual "Really" with the head shaking and lead us to the counter in back. He assured us everything was fine as he looked for my order. No dice. He finally found the shipment... which was coming in Friday. He tried explaining how they were a store within a store, which is why I was bumped back to their phone. He mentioned it was for higher end equipment and better service. I scoffed and pointed at the telephone gal. "She put my boyfriend on terminal hold for 30 minutes while she checked for the television. That's why we came in." Again he did the head shaking. I was not amused. I just placed myself in debt for a TV that wasn't going to be there. He asked me to wait and disappeared into the back. I thought he was hiding until he came out and asked if we wanted to take it home now. Hell yes! With a few clicks we were on our way home. Now we have a huge TV to mess with. Which is good because we wont have the money to do anything else. :P

I find it so ironic that our right wingers feel television shows need to be censured because they can morally corrupt our minds. Then "reality" shows start popping up on every channel, and I don't hear a peep about their content. Throwing married couples on an island with temptation, locking people up in a house together, and then there's the bane of my existence: Survivor. I have yet to watch an episode. It has no appeal to me whatsoever.The idea of plotting against one another for money seems barbaric to me. Is this something we really want to teach our youth and frighteningly impressionable society twits? "Schemers Always Win" should be the true name of that show.

The idea in itself will never be proven. These numbskulls are playing for money. They're not trying to survive, they're in it for the cash. Any way you look at it, greed vs preservation are complete polar opposites. Sorry guys, your show doesn't cut it. Buh bye. If it were only that easy.

There are people who just lap this shit up. You want to worry about the end of civilization? Why don't you get your panties in a wad about these shows? I know they're going to find... "and the fifth seal was broken... and Survivor was unleashed upon the world" in the Apocalypse section of the bible. Y'all better leave my Internet porn alone and go after the real moral corruption. And what the hell was the pig killing episode for? Arrggh!!