I want my mmmm...TV (Alessandra)

Television is the national drug and god forbid there should be an interruption in delivery so you miss American Idol or worse, pick up a book or something. It's galling that our money is spent on ads to inform people with antennas that tv is going completely digital (a year from now!) and that there's a taxpayer-funded stipend you can receive to convert your analog tv (does anyone have one of these? Even the Amish have gone digital by now) to accept the digital signal.  By comparison, if there had been as remotely as organized disaster plan for New Orleans, a city below water in hurricane alley, more people would be alive and still in their own houses.  Maybe the people of Ninth Ward need a reality show on Fox so that at the rest of us would a) know what's going on; and b) actually give a sh*t.