My Sick Mind

It's here. You're watching, aren't you? C'mon, admit it, you're fascinated. "It's not television. It's birth control." The sad thing is that it is television. It's television at its worst. It's television exploiting life for its own gain. Commercial advertisements, promotion and exploitation. It's what television has become, and for them to say it's not television is a lie. Kids are "borrowing" actual children. It's not one of those cyber deals where it's like Robo-kid and they can cancel the game and start over. These are real kids with real parents - not the ones on the show - other parents who sold the kids to the show, and I can only imagine the family photo album and YouTube video that the kid will see when he's twelve. "Hey Billy, check it out. This is you when we sold you to this TV show because we had too much credit card debt and gasoline was $4 a gallon (you remember gasoline, right?) and w...

In case you haven't heard (and why would you?) there's some-a-cussin' going on. Television cussin', that is. Live TV + Jane Fonda = A Hell of a lot of fun. Jane Fonda appeared on The Today Show Thursday morning talking about a play called "The Vagina Monologues". As you can see, on television you're allowed to say vagina at 9am, but not ... well, watch and learn: She "inadvertently said" the word. Really? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, inadvertently: 1 : not focusing the mind on a matter : inattentive 2 : unintentional - in·ad·ver·tent·ly adverb . It didn't sound unintentional to me. I think she was being advertant . It didn't sound like a slip or something that was not intended to be used. Meredith made it sound like it got spewed out in the heat of the moment. Jane knew what she was saying. A little faux pas by our old pal Jane. At 70, you'd think she would be old enough to know better. Maybe she does, which...

NBC , in cahoots with the NFL , has instituted a flexible schedule for Sunday night, where they can arbitrarily move a game that was originally scheduled for the afternoon and have it played at night on national TV. Nevermind that it may inconvenience fans who travel to see the game or have to get up for work, the almighty Television is a master who must be served. A few weeks ago, they re-scheduled tonight's Eagles-Colts game. Along the way, the Colts lost (ruining their undefeated season), the Eagles played like crap in losing to Tennessee and Jacksonville and quarterback Donovan McNabb suffered a season-ending injury last week. The once marquee match-up turned into a game that had to be sold rather than sell itself. Television, in their attempt to manufacture history, has found that history cannot be manipulated, no matter how much money they throw at it. Few things make me happier than seeing corporate America screwed over. Televisions across America are being tuned out a...