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(moved over from Eons)

- "reality shows" would be banned

- ...especially dating shows

- no TV show could ever be advertised by calling it an "event"

- female cops on TV would not look like they just stepped off the cover of Cosmopolitan

- each network would be limited to at most one Law & Order, one CSI, etc.

- there would be an 8 year moratorium on sitcoms with a big dumb guy married to a beautiful babe

- comedies would be filmed in front of a live audience, no laugh tracks allowed… Continue

(moved over from Eons)

I was raised as a liberal.

These days, that's an admission that's about as popular as saying that you're a child molester, isn't it? Being liberal, or or having been liberal, is one of those things that others accuse you of, and you defend yourself against.

Well, it's true. I admit it. That's how I was raised.

Of course, it was easier then, because then "liberal" meant something different than it does now. In my home, describing someone as liberal meant such things as… Continue

(moved over from Eons)

It's not often you can identify turning points in your life, but one occurred for me in the 1980 presidential election.

I was attracted to the presidential campaign of John Anderson who was running as an independent against Ronald Reagan (a man whose politics I could not abide) and Jimmy Carter (whose heart may have been in the right place but was terribly ineffectual).

On the radio I heard a spokesman for the Democratic party lament that Anderson's campaign was taking… Continue

(moved over from Eons)

Getting your identity stolen is a little like contracting a sexually transmitted disease. It happens to other people. You know, careless, irresponsible people. Not me.

But it happened to me.

It all began, as Rod Serling would have said, innocently enough with an unexpected FedEx from AT&T Wireless. In it was a SIM card – something you slip into your cell phone to use it with a new carrier – and instructions for how to activate it. Thing is, I’ve never ordered an AT&… Continue