Alternately, if the government really wants to get into it, why not force cable companies to make their offerings a la carte?
Ooh, I'd like that. Not so much for the avoiding of indecency, but I'd love to get just the channels I want without all the filler crap.
YES! And to add to the dream, I'd like them to force the cable providers to make their rates more clear in the publications and on their websites. It's ridiculous.
Hell, I could even get behind individual Cable Channels pledging a maximum rating, so that people who don't want to watch anything over whatever could avoid it altogether by not getting any such channels.
This already sort of happens, with cable station brand identification. In other words, I know something on Disney, Nick jr., Noggin, or PBS (during children's hours) is going to meet my minimum decency standards. I love the v-chip (or similar) capability available through my cable provider, because sometimes, I have to pee, cook dinner, throw on a load of laundry, or otherwise leave the room. I can block anything with a certain rating. I can block according to channel or title. It is helpful.
What I'd like to figure out, is how to STOP CHRISTOPHER FROM PROGRAMMING THE TIVO AND DELETING MY SHOWS.
He's set up season passes for his own shows. He's changed priorities on them. He's deleted stuff I've marked as "Keep until I delete". He's 4. He's done all this on the very few times I have left the remote within his reach, and I've left the room for two minutes.
Last week, Scott and I found him reading the TiVo manual.
I think that dress is one of those that looks opaque except under certain kinds of flash cameras. The same way Kerry's daughter displayed her nipples to the world at Cannes. I mean, Stepahnie Seymour is a tart, but that's ridiculous.
I mean, Stepahnie Seymour is a tart, but that's ridiculous.
We still have to take her out back and shoot her, because that bra strap across the back is wrongWRONGwrong.
But I judge any public persona that walks the paparazzi gauntlet without flash-testing their clothes. Just because you can't see the parsley in your teeth doesn't mean you get a pass.
Right, Cindy, but I'm thinking of kids a little older, and/or networks that are not known quantities.
Also, that is damn impressive, if, I'm sure, very annoying.
Reading the manual? You are so doomed, Cindy.
Holy cow. Eartha Kitt is doing a live chat appearance on the Washington Post right now. [link]
Reading the manual? You are so doomed, Cindy.
Yep. I registered him for Kindergarten, today. He'll be screened in about two weeks time, which will be an interesting preface, to an interesting school year.
Academically, he's where my (bright by any standard) Benjamin was (wrt math and reading) at this time of the year, in first grade. Behavior-wise, it's like he's turning 4 rather than 5. He's also the fluffiest bunny ever, but managed to become quite assertive, at the same time.
I may take up drinking.
Right, Cindy, but I'm thinking of kids a little older, and/or networks that are not known quantities.
That's true. Still, it doesn't seem right to make them pledge to a rating. TV sucks, anyhow.
TV sucks, anyhow.
::GASP::
Cindy! You apologize to TV right now.
I will not!
It SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
(and blows)
