TV or not TV

In case you haven't heard, this is "Turn-Off TV Week".

We are all supposed to turn off our TV sets and computers and enjoy the real world!

Yuck.

Anyway according to the chronic do-gooders behind this program, TV is bad because:

*"On average, children in the US will spend more time in front of the television (1,023 hours) than in school this year (900 hours)". -- They say that like it's a bad thing.

* "Forty percent of Americans frequently or always watch television during dinner." -- What we really need are TVs in the washroom.

* As US Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher said at the Kick Off of TV-Turnoff Week 2001, "We are raising the most overweight generation of youngsters in American history...This week is about saving lives." --- Hmm, that's right kids stop watching TV and go out and play in the traffic.

But seriously this anti-TV campaign is a swell idea.

And I would defintitely take part, but I just have to find out if Lilly will forgive Daniel for his porn addiction on the Young and the Restless!

Another 300 Comment

Last night my son went to see the movie 300.

He loved it giving it a 9.3 out of 10. (He's very precise with his reviews.)

I mention this because it gives me another excuse to talk about the crazy political debate surrounding this movie.

The left wing, politically correct crowd hate it not because it's conservative (which it isn't) but simply because it's not liberal.

Here's how the film's director Zack Snyder responded:

"When someone in a movie says, ‘We’re going to fight for freedom,’ that’s now a dirty word, Europeans totally feel that way. If you mention democracy or freedom, you’re an imperialist or a fascist. That’s crazy to me.”

It's crazy to me too.

H/T Libertas