So within my 10 minute drive to the bus station this morning, I heard 2 references on NPR to the government being asked to step in and legislate more.
1) The NFL network and Time-Warner (Austin) are all in a tissy because they didn’t play the Cowboy game on normal cable, and so people had to go to bars. Oh no, you might actually prevent a recession by spending money locally. Careful. Or oh no, you’ll have to go to someone’s house who has the NFL network, interact with them and their friends, and otherwise be social. Either way, you’re screwed. They asked the Texas legislature to intervene. For TV. For entertainment.
2) The government has been requested to monitor and keep track of how speculators affect world markets. Well, duh. Tangential to this, they’re expecting the fed to fuxor with interest rates again today, to bail us out of something horrible we got ourselves into.
Look, networks can broadcast what they want and to cable companies they want. Cable companies can carry them or not. (Don’t get me started on the monopoly cable companies have on MOST areas. That’s truly horrible.) It’s — stay with me here — entertainment. That’s all. It’s not like the cable company is denying us public tv or educational material we need to run our lives. Which, ya know, we all get from TV.
Furthermore, we got all those horrible mortgages. We said yes, we’ll pay that rate. Yes, I want a huge house in the right neighborhood. Yes, it’s as big as my neighbors’. Yes, I’m awesome by owning junk. Possessions make me cool!
If anything, let’s legislate how effing unwilling everyone is to be responsible for themselves. How about, let’s make a talking Jesus doll
