Please please please people.  There is a time and place for brain dead television vegging but things have gotten way out of control. I can’t believe what passes for TV these days.  The brain dead, no talent fools that are famous only because we, no you, are the ones telling lack of creation Hollywood execs that this is what passes for entertainment because you watch it. Please don’t do it anymore!

I’ve made my point a thousand times that the world started swirling down the toilet with 24 hour TV.  24 hour sports.  24 hour news.  24 pet shitting.  COME ON!!!  I will guarantee that if people would get out more and interact on a human level things would get better immediately.   Watch TV, it’s fine.  Just watch more history and learn about our country and the people that gave their lives to give us what we have.  They didn’t sit on a couch all day to make their mark on history… they sat on the couch NEVER!  Granted there was no TV for most of them but their down time was spent debating and thinking with friends and FOES!  Often the friend WAS the foe, and it was fine! Everyone’s time now is spent watching people on TV that… well I don’t even know what they are.  No talent, no brains, with no reason to be acknowledged.  I’m starting to relearn all I forgot in history class, please do the same so we can be the awesome country we were in those history books.  If not we are going to turn out like the movie Idiocracy. The last 10 years we have taken a drastic turn toward it.  My one voice will do nothing, we are on our way to Idiocracy if we all don’t act.

We are no longer a nation of innovators and thinkers. We’re a nation of regurgitaters and followers.

CNN.com – Research: Third of study results don’t hold up

Wow this is a great study. It’s a study to prove that a third of all studies are useless. Great appropriation of government funds. I can do this study for you free of charge and get better results. I think a third is being very conservative and I would have to say that over half of these studies are nonsense. Oh yea, a study I just read says that you should take aspirin every day. No wait, this study says aspirin causes cancer. There are too many of these where insert item x here is good for you, no it’s bad for you. CNN.com – Research: Third of study results don’t hold up – Jul 13, 2005

I have to make a brief crotchety old man rant. I woke up this morning and checked my dozen morning news and bargain sites and CNN.com’s top story was the ‘America Idol’ winner. Are you serious? In the previous 36 hours there have been a dozen American soldiers KIA in Iraq and the top story in the US is who won ‘American Idol.’ This is a reflection of the state of the society that we live in. Everyone wants to take a stance on the war and give their two cents but now apparently thousands of people dying isn’t as important as reality our coveted reality TV. We are at war yet I’m so glad I know the outcome of some stupid TV show. It appears that Americans don’t care about anything unless it is on TV 24/7. Everyone cared about the war and had an opinion about it when it was on TV 24/7. Now that it’s only a blip on the nightly news and we are bombarded with reality TV show commercials instead of war reports our new passions and opinions have switched from invasion and war to who our favorite pop singer is. This short term memory, media driven, brainwashed, unable to make decisions for ourselves unless someone tells us what to think, TV (like big brother in our living rooms telling us what we’re interested in) society that we live in today is a very disgusting thing. Props to FOX News on this one. They kept ‘American Idol’ off the front page although they do have “‘Jeopardy!’ King Dethroned.” But Ken Jennings is a tough guy to beat. Here is the contrast in headlines from CNN to FOX News:

CNN: ‘American Idol’ No. 4 named

FOX News: “Ten Die in Iraq Violence”

A big shame on you goes to CNN.