Had three big trees on my property, all three landed on the house. Praise the Lord!
It has been more than a week now that I have suffered no cable. The net I can get here in this coffee shop but I can only drink so much coffee so don’t hang long.
What I found most upsetting is that the local network channels are Hurricane Ike news all the time for 8 days running now. No network nightly news other than PBS, or any prime time shows other than PBS. It is the same with the radio and again, thank God for NPR with any news beyond wind and water damage.
This has caused me to watch many of those strange big city local stations I never new existed before. There seems to be about four in English and six in Spanish. Lots of African American sitcoms and Mexican game shows. I have seen more acne ads in the last week than I have in my entire life.
The overall picture I got was that poor people who cannot afford cable are caught in a television cycle of very stupid programming directed to the lowest common denominator. This of course perpetuates the central political problem of our democracy, it makes the American Voter even dumber than they already are.