To TV or not to TV

The economy sucks. Most states are hovering around 8-10 percent unemployed. A much higher percentage go to work, serving coffee to bitchy bikers or hammering nails in the rain, but “live” in poverty.  If you can call drinking Western Family  coffee instead of fresh roasted beans living. 

Whew. That’s a hell of a lot of people making tough decisions every day. Decisions like: how long should a “check engine” light blink before you sell your kidney to raise the mechanic’s fee? Are dollar store multi vitamins a good replacement for fruits and vegetables? Is scurvy easy to cure?   Should you use the see-through packing tape to hold the broken window in place, or just give in and use the duct tape? Can you bring the patch-look back into fashion, or should you just make those pants into shorts? Will frostbite really lead to amputation?

The biggest decision of all? Should you cut off your cable. Turn off the tv? Live without the escapism? If you switch to Netflix to provide your tv crack cocaine, can you live without sports and news? Remember, you can always read. Reeeeeaaaaadddd. Because reading about the Blazers is better than watching them (well, sometimes it is). Time to break out the radio, revert back to grandma's kitchen, your hair in braids, bacon and eggs on the table, NPR or Tom Brokaw filling the greasy, sunny air. It's easy to say "oh, I never watch tv, it's disgusting" if you have the choice not to watch tv. High moral stands are easy to make when you have a sturdy platform of cash under you.