as americans we may not have a gulag. however, we do still have the ever shrinking, television market share finally filled to the brim with nothing left to watch except
politicians and pundits and poseurs, oh my!
pretending that only people on the tv matter may eventually be even farther removed from actual american life than when television began if current trends continue.
strangely if not for the writer's strike (and other unions showing that guild their support) many former participants would never have otherwise recently escaped their ephemerally
delusional prisons of mediocrity.
drinking, dain bramage, or both?
normally i don't ask for audience participation. i figure most of my viewers are meaningfully occupied with their own drinking games. however, if nascar can figure out running without tetraethyl lead and tractor owners can not then i suppose there's still not much point in skimping on race day concessions.