Free Republic

CINCINNATI -- Hundreds lined up Friday morning for free digital converter boxes. The Freestore Foodbank announced Thursday that it would offer 250 free converter boxes at its office in Over-the-Rhine Friday morning at 8 a.m. By 5 a.m., more than 300 people had lined up. By 8 a.m., that number had swelled to more than 600. Because of the large turnout, not everyone in line would be receiving a free digital converter box. A digital converter box is needed by anyone who does not have cable, satellite television or a digital antenna. The government has offered coupons to help people...

We’re pathetic. As a nation, taken together, we are the biggest collection of spoiled, helpless pansies the world has ever known. The converter boxes prove it. You know what I’m talking about. For a year they’ve been pounding it into our heads. Seriously, if you beamed down here from another planet, and based your assessment of what mattered most on what you heard the most about, it would be converter boxes. There have been countless mentions, countless little crawls across the bottom of the television screen, countless panels of “experts” waiting to answer your questions. The background is that the...