Since I got the new fancy TV my little beasts have taken an interest in watching television. When I had my little crappy TV none of them cared about it. Forest is fond of nature programs on PBS and particularly likes frog noises. He likes to sit on the footstool so he's at eye level with it (as seen here watching an ocean crab). Tanga prefers cartoons.
I am definitely not someone who denies the existence of global warming. I agree that some major changes have to be made to curtail the damage we are doing to the environment or eventually down the line it’s going to come back and bite us on the ass. I am, however, irritated that politicos and lobbyists are running commercials using children to try to get everyone involved in facing this issue. The “Tick” commercial that has been running as a PSA lately makes me mad. I think that it is important to educate children about protecting the environment and their responsibilities but I do not think it is right to use children as an advertising tool. I especially do not like it that a lot of children seem to be afraid that within their lifetimes they will see mass destruction, devastation, and horror because of global warming. Children are supposed to worry about who they play with at recess and whether they are going to have to eat spinach at dinner, not that the earth is spiraling towards disaster. If we are going to get them all worked up about something how about something that they can actually control right now like childhood obesity or violence in schools? It just seems unfair to me to put this issue in the laps of the under 15 set.
I have come to accept that most new television just sucks. Not only does it seem that more than half of it is reality TV that keeps getting more asinine and idiotic but the shows that actually do require writing seem to have been dreamt up by a drunk monkey. Take Cavemen for example. Apparently some genius believes that the Geico commercial characters will make good sitcom material. ABC has signed on for 13 episodes of this crap. The funny thing is that they have apparently run into problems with "racial stereotyping" and have had to rewrite things and try to dance around socially delicate issues (which was supposed to be the whole point of the show). Maybe I am totally off the mark and this show will become a classic and I'll be buying the box set in 15 years. But personally I would much rather have seen them do something with that Aflac duck...
