Via twitter and drudge, a live tv feed from Oklahoma. (This link may be broken soon.)

Look at that disclaimer... Every TV show in America is supposed to be captioned.

Listen, I have hearing loss.

But Jeez Louise, every program?

I don't think this is about being nice to deaf people... It's about spending other people's money... As with the Starbucks changing stations. Why NOT tell coffee salesmen what to do? We're not coffee salesmen, right? No skin off our nose.

But captioning costs money. And some TV things, especially in an era of exploding media, are probably on budgets too small to afford to do it... Small scale documentaries and stuff. So the shows won't get made.

(Technology will take care of this in the decades just ahead... In twenty years, your phone or computer will do as good a job understanding your friend's speech as you do.)

But for cryin' out loud, Americans have GOT to stop spending each other's money.

If you want to be nice to deaf people, or to people with babies or the uninsured people, open your own wallet, not ours.

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You shouldn't eat grains, Amy. Very unhealthy.

Liberals. Queers. Schoolteachers. Hollywood.

Oh, Mildred. It's all so sordid.

I particularly enjoy the flapping birds up and down the center of the page, which is both eye-catching and a powerful graphic element, without being at all distracting!

(Amy will panic about this anyway.)

If homosexuality is a disorder, I'm applying for SSD.

16 fucking minutes warning.

(The preceding complaint is about our planet, not the society that does the best work at taming it.)

(IJS.)

Getting weird in retail.

Someone is bound to blame the Moore, OK tornado on global warming. It isn't real.