I am Charlie because I too am lucky to be here 

Speaking of the perils of television... 

I can't wait for this movie! 

I know too many of these girls 

From the "What are we doing?" file...

California class on business ethics from a distinct perspective. Click Here

A good one today from Bruderhof...

A Day Will Come...
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Christ said, “Go and give all you have to the poor and become the servant of all men,” for if you do that, you’ll become a thousand times richer because your happiness won’t be made just of good food, rich clothes, satisfied vanity, and appeased envy. Instead it will be built on love, love multiplied by love without end. And then you will gain not just riches…but the whole world!

Today we amass material things without ever satisfying our greed, and then we madly squander all we have amassed. But a day will come when there will be no orphans, no beggars; everyone will be as one of my own family, everyone will be my brother and sister, and that is when I will have gained everything and everyone!

Today even some of the richest and mightiest people care nothing about how long they have been given to live because they can no longer think up ways to spend their hours. But one day our hours will be multiplied a thousandfold, for we will not want to lose one single moment of our lives, as we will live every one of them in the gaiety of our hearts.

And then our wisdom will come not out of books but from living in the presence of God, and the earth will glow brighter than the sun, and there will be no sadness, no sighs will be heard. The whole world will be paradise.
Finding the gospel in Dostoevsky.

Milking male horses..."How scandalous!"

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8114

I like conservatives, in fact, I am one.
However, we do silly things.
We also say very silly things sometimes.
Further, it seems from the link above that some of us don't have a very good sense of humor.

I'm sure the joke has been around a long time, probably even from before there were American conservatives.

Not the greatest joke mind you, but good in a pinch and when you need a funny bit for a movie about "City Slickers"

Worse than Television 

Why I do have television, but the television doesn't have me.

I was raised by television so I feel a sort of need to come to my surrogate mother's defense. After school till sleep, the glow of the t.v. made the dark less scary and the quiet less unbearable. She taught me some interesting things and some horrible things. Do I wish I would have put down the remote and played more football? Honestly, no.

What I gathered from your post is that t.v. is mostly an advertisment. I agree. However, this seems to imply that the "monitor" your t.v. has become is somehow something other than an advertisement. While some movies are meant to enlighten, I would argue that a vast majority are there to sell popcorn and to get a McDonald's tie-in.

What I kept wanting to say while reading your post is that television is a medium, it is not the enemy. Television has the ability to do both good an evil because the humans who develop its programming also have that ability.

It seems by this reasoning you could denounce countless other mediums like newspapers, magazines, or even the internet you used to post the blog I just read. Aren't there horrible things a google click away on this dreadful medium? But , aren't there amazing things as well? A camera can be pointed at a slaughter or the heavens, but if you don't like the picture don't throw away the camera, throw away the photographer.

Therefore, I would say (borrowing from Chesterton) that we can thank God for television by not watching too much of it or by not watching it for its sake.

As an aside, I don't have cable. I have an antena, but I haven't sat down and watched a show on the television for at least 5 months. Anyway, let me know what you think and keep posting. This will be a great way for me to keep up on the goings on of Mr. Morten. (Also known as - the king of contracts)