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Why are daily ’soaps,’ medical shows, legal dramas so popular?
Ever thought about why the daily “soaps” on daytime television, medical shows, legal dramas, and other such well-worn forms remain so popular on television? It’s my belief that we all have a streak of the voyeur in us. We really want to take a peek behind the window blinds of other people’s lives — and the soaps, melodramas like medical shows and courtroom dramas, and even some of the so-called “reality” shows on television, give us socially acceptable ways of taking those peeks into other people’s lives.Read more on Why are daily ’soaps,’ medical shows, legal dramas so popular?…
Wisdom for us all to be found in the ‘funny papers’
Many years ago when I was a kid, we called the comics page in our local newspaper “the funny papers.” Nowadays, of course, newspapers themselves are failing fast, and some of you may not realize what a “comics page” is — but trust me, it’s a collection of printed comic strips such as you find at some Internet news sites.Read more on Wisdom for us all to be found in the ‘funny papers’…
British display sense of great class, banning Savage and hate-filled Kansas ‘preacher’
The British have shown some real class, in my opinion, by putting radio talk show madman Michael Savage and the hate-filled, hateful, crazy Kansas preacher and his daughter (I’m not gonna bother looking up or publishing their names here) on a “banned” list.Read more on British display sense of great class, banning Savage and hate-filled Kansas ‘preacher’…