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The Laugh Track

I watched two more television shows without laugh tracks last night. If there’s no laugh track telling me to laugh is it still a funny show? I have my doubts. The laugh track has been around since the...

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Google The Spy

In the age of privacy concerns, nobody likes to be spied upon. Like it or don’t, Big Brother Google is spying on us. Do you mind? Do you Google? The most popular of the world’s internet search engines,...

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Where Do You Get The News?

This is a question that changes through the years. From what sources do you get your daily supply of the news? Is it the daily or weekly newspaper? How about television news, such as CNN, Fox News, or...

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500 Channels And Nothing Is On

Television has become predictable and boring. 500 channels and nothing’s on. The next great thing on television isn’t on TV. It isn’t just network television which has become banal, boring, and bad....

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What’s Wrong With Wikipedia?

My parents bought a set of World Book encyclopedias when I was a child. Today’s kids have Wikipedia. What’s wrong with that? Wikipedia is an internet encyclopedia in which anyone, almost everyone, can...

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Inflation Or No Inflation?

In general, economists in the U.S. insist there is no real inflation. How do they explain the price gouging going on at the corner gasoline station? Prices fluctuate for a variety of reasons, not the...

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Life after the Sunday Comics

From the middle 1970′s and for over 20 years following, the Daily Dose of Doonesbury was required reading for this and many other maturing baby boomers. A few years ago I noticed that the Daily Dose...

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The Unreadable Book

Back in 1992, Richard Saul Wurman’s Follow The Yellow Brick Roadhit the best seller charts. I bought it and never read it. I can’t. Why? I don’t know. Since that day about 20 years ago, I’ve bought and...

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What We Don’t Learn from Television

Television promised to revolutionize the world. It did. If 500 channels of mediocrity is a revolution. What happened? Lowest. Common. Denominator. The path of least resistance. The original promise of...

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Truth in Advertising

Truth in advertising, in a literal sense, doesn’t exist. Advertising exists to inform, persuade, entertain, and all with an ulterior motive to cause a specific action. To separate your money from you....

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