REPEAT TV Cable is A Rip Off

Ever wish you could customize your cable TV channel selections? If the cable companies offered the choice to pick the programs one wants, and pay just for those, I for one would subscribe but until that day and until they stop repeating programs in the same year, I choose to opt out. Cable as it is structured now is a rip off.

TV NEWS The New Mouthpiece of Marketers?

Is it just me or is the media becoming more and more the distribution point of choice for marketers seeking free advertising? I always thought the purpose of the TV news was to provide unbiased information to its audience of world and local events. It seems more and more time is being devoted to those who have something to sell. I don't' see this as being newsworthy. I would like to see more in depth reports of issues affecting us all and less pitching of cunsumables.

Waste in Government

Why do taxpayers tolerate government's wasteful ways? Shouldn't there be some accountability?

Politics of Polluting

Our society has been largely built from oil but we are hearing in the news now that consumption of fossil fuels is causing global warming. Putting aside the debates about this, let's just consider the whole notion of polluting. Whose right is it to spew anything harmful into the environment? Sure I'm just as guilty of it as anyone but it seems strange that littering carries fines in various jurisdictions yet we are all allowed to spew poisons into the general environment.

Why is this? Who makes the laws which permit this continuing pillaging of our shared environment?

Take the oil industry for example. Government subsidies and tax incentives give this business an unfair advantage over alternative, cleaner technologies. If we were to pay at the pump the actual price of gasoline if those subsidies did not exist, nobody could afford it. Indeed, the recent rise of oil prices may soon lead to more and more people searching for alternatives but until our laws are changed to favor such changes, this may be slow in coming or even shelved.

For an interesting perspective on this topic read the book It's The Crude, Dude, look at the video series The Prize, and view Al Gore's much talked about An Inconvenient Truth.

Unless WE want a clean environment, it will not happen.