[Quix]

Having SEEN and

LISTENED TO

and been

SPLATTERED by similar on top of the Milk Bucket lid (more times than I'd have preferred by far)

such a performance

. . . no way I could read without robust laughter.

I think he's got it right.

And just prior to reading this one--I was listening to some FOX commentator drone on and on about special forces this and that with some Congressional Committee member . . . and thinking to myself--they sure have to fill the air time with a lot or drivel, don't they.

Still, Fox does better than most.

Wasteland, indeed.

I wonder what McLuen (sp?) would say nowadays. He is dead, isn't he?

[Straight Vermonter]

Having SEEN and LISTENED TO and been SPLATTERED by similar on top of the Milk Bucket lid (more times than I'd have preferred by far) such a performance . . . no way I could read without robust laughter.

Yes, but have you ever gotten a "fully laden" tail in the face while milking?

[xp38]

In 1961, FCC Chairman Newton Minow called television programming the vast wasteland. Marshall Mcluhan (1911-1980) coined such terms as the medium is the message and the global village.