Observations

I'm not so sure I'm too fond of this Amazon.com thing. After all, it's a website that floods you with some truly barbaric and deranged reading material known as Amazon customer reviews. Who the heck wants to read that kind of stuff?! I mean, all Amazon customer reviews are written by people who are mentally unstable. Each one should make you feel compelled to head on over to a Zoloft bottle and ingest several hundred milligrams.  No one has ever said anything remotely sane in an Amazon customer review. The site has been around for two and a half decades, it's attracted hundreds of millions of reviews, and we're all just sitting in front of our computers with our popcorn, waiting to encounter one review that shows some semblance of rational thought. Here's an Amazon review for Dixon-Ticonderoga pencils. "I'm a teacher, and so I know first hand the important quality difference between good pencils (like Ticonderoga) and cheap knock-offs. Although the gra...

CSPAN claims to show you political proceedings that are 100% unfiltered. But it sure does seem like they do their fair share of filtering--doesn't it? Whenever you watch CSPAN, you get the impression that they filter out all the highlights, and they only show you the extremely dull parts. They must. After all--no one has ever come across anything even slightly interesting on that channel. You watch it for two hours straight, and the most interesting part is some boring retort that the gentlewoman from Arkansas made in response to the even more boring remarks made previously by the gentleman from Florida. That's CSPAN. And then there's CSPAN 2, which utilizes an entirely different approach, and focuses on assaulting you with massive amounts of a show called Book TV. The people running CSPAN 2 adamantly believe that every day is a suitable day for a Book TV marathon. As if we're all sitting at home thinking, "Gosh. You know what would really hit the spot right now? M...