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Hey, we watch a lot of TV down here! And we're loving every minute of it, as Max S. used to say. No football though. No Idols. I used to see The National before Al Gore & chums bought the channel that carried World News International (mostly Canadian news w/ large dollops of news from China, GB, Japan, Germany, and a few other places) and turned it into pablum for 18-28 year-olds. That man (Gore) has a lot to answer for imho. I mean, a state-wide recount in Florida would have kept the election out of the Supreme Court, where he lost the presidency by one vote. Sheesh. Hal "The nation without great poets will not have great politicians." --Saddam Hussein Halvard Johnson ================ [log in to unmask] http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html On Feb 18, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Douglas Barbour wrote: > But Hal, Kellie Pickler, cute as she must be, needs to spend all > her learning time on studying how to become an Idol. This certainly > helps one to make more sense of that last line, though (though it > had its own charm without the facts). > > Hmmnn. I know that I too would have a hard time getting through a > week (especially during football season) without turning on the TV, > but then I do watch CBC's The National, one hour of news, every > night.... > > Doug > On 17-Feb-08, at 8:32 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote: > >> I think you're probably right about that last line, Frederick. >> I was probably too much under the sway of >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14dumb.html >> >> this article in the NYT last week. It (the line) will be >> scrutinized further. Thanks. >> >> Hal > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > > Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > > Drive right past that lady, that’s > St. As Is. > > George Bowering