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So, I'm up in Boston for the week, staying with my wife's in-laws. This family watches a lot more TV than I do, so I'm getting a lot of exposure to...whatever you call this:
-Madonna on "Ellen" this morning, comparing the bullying of gay teenagers in high school to first A. the lynching of black people and then B. the holocaust. Ellen did not even blink. Madonna then went on to make a mealymouthed speech about tolerance, which I agreed with the actual meaning of 100%. Yet I still wanted to walk up to her and punch her right in the ovaries at the end of it. Oh, how I loathe Hollywood Liberalism.
-Oprah interviewing Dubya. I only caught a glimpse of this, in which she she asked him, "If you could go back to the you of ten years ago, knowing everything you know now, what one thing would you tell yourself?" I thought instantly, "hmm...the obvious answer is 'I'd warn myself about 9/11 and save over 3,000 American lives.' But that would involve admitting error, so--" And sure enough, he says some rubbish about staying true to his principles. Oprah also interviewed Michael Jackson's mother, but I'm repressing that memory.
-The View. There seems to be some sort of hierarchy in the seating arrangements. Whoopi, the dominant female, talks the most and sits on the left, then Barbara Walters, then two people I don't recognize. The young, attractive woman, who clearly poses a threat to the others, is put at the bottom to show her her place. She obediently says little and never seems to do that talk-over-Whoopi thing she tolerates in the other two.
-House. Does he casually violate the law in every episode? Does he ever resort to actual medicine?
I guess this is why I don't watch much TV.
-Madonna on "Ellen" this morning, comparing the bullying of gay teenagers in high school to first A. the lynching of black people and then B. the holocaust. Ellen did not even blink. Madonna then went on to make a mealymouthed speech about tolerance, which I agreed with the actual meaning of 100%. Yet I still wanted to walk up to her and punch her right in the ovaries at the end of it. Oh, how I loathe Hollywood Liberalism.
-Oprah interviewing Dubya. I only caught a glimpse of this, in which she she asked him, "If you could go back to the you of ten years ago, knowing everything you know now, what one thing would you tell yourself?" I thought instantly, "hmm...the obvious answer is 'I'd warn myself about 9/11 and save over 3,000 American lives.' But that would involve admitting error, so--" And sure enough, he says some rubbish about staying true to his principles. Oprah also interviewed Michael Jackson's mother, but I'm repressing that memory.
-The View. There seems to be some sort of hierarchy in the seating arrangements. Whoopi, the dominant female, talks the most and sits on the left, then Barbara Walters, then two people I don't recognize. The young, attractive woman, who clearly poses a threat to the others, is put at the bottom to show her her place. She obediently says little and never seems to do that talk-over-Whoopi thing she tolerates in the other two.
-House. Does he casually violate the law in every episode? Does he ever resort to actual medicine?
I guess this is why I don't watch much TV.
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