Accountable

More dumbing of America.

There was a time when the national news seemed to hire the most articulate, the most trenchant newscasters. They spoke well. They gave you insights into the news. And, I suspect, if they made a mistake. they knew it. Not any more. Tonight in just a mere ten minutes on ABC national news, I noticed, what were to me, two glaring errors. One was a report on a charity-driven program that provided free school supplies to teachers. A great idea. But the newcaster said, "Coming up next a back-to-school sale where everything is free." If everything is free, it is not a sale. Moments later a promo for an ABC show that spoke of "...leads that didn't lead anywhere." Then, they were not leads. These are just two of many errors I notice in every newscast. Not because I am so smart, but because the networks have become so inaccurate. I think ABC, NBC and CBS should buy themselves good dictionaries and a comprehensive grammar book.

PBS Antiques Roadshow Commercial :60

No comment needed.

This commercial for the "Antiques Road Show" is so perfect, so compelling, so amusing and so flawless there is no need to comment on it. Just watch and enjoy.

How do they get there?

This weekend, I saw a sermon by John Hagee. What a whackjob! This intolerant blob of a person was describing to his delusional congregation a nuclear holocaust. The very fact that he could come up with so many scenes of hideous pain and destruction shows clearly what a sick fuck this man is. I am sure that God unleashed this horror of violence on Hagee's imaginary cities because two men made love. Certainly that's reason enough to have a mushroom cloud destroy millions of people and burn the faces of small children before vaporizing them completely. What most amazes me is how these utterly bitter, stupid, ill-educated idiots reach these heights of bigotry in the first place. After all, they are millionaires who seem to enthrall thousands of pseudo-Christians (you can't hate like they do and be true Christians) with their screwball rhetoric and pissed-off polemics. And it can't be a sexual thing by the obviously repressed pewclingers because this guy is fireplug ugly. I don't get it. I guess there are more hatemongers out there than I would like to believe. God knows, his huge temple of intolerance was full of them. A few days after Hagee's rant this porcine prophet of prejudice was sitting in the first row of Glenn Beck's Lincoln Memorial rally. What does that tell you?

Ask Me About My Tempur-Pedic (Commercial)

Never? Did he say "never?"

"Ask me why someone who has never had an ache or a pain is in love with this bed." This is what one of the actors on this Tempur-Pedic commercial says. Did anyone check the script before shooting it? If he's never had an ache or a pain how does he know it's because of this bed? Isn't the correct wording, "Ask me why someone who has never had an ache or pain since sleeping on Tempur-Pedic is in love with this bed." I marvel at the number of word inaccuracies in costly, frequently run commercials, especially since words are the least expensive and most flexible ingredient. I'd lose sleep if I wrote this commercial.

Note: They never give you a clue as to price of this bed. That's scary!