>>>Like I said, I don't have a horse in this race. One is empty and promising nothing much, the other is just the same and promising same as before but more or worse... but at least there's been some drama so far.
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>>I'm sure you have at least been entertained! I know i have :o)
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>Seeing stereo John burst at seams is something to see, specially symultaneously. Seeing MikeB get serious is even more interesting.
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>But no, not enough of a reason to turn the TV on. We've seen two reruns last week (one Linley, one bau-bau (a sort of imaginary animal to scare the kids :), and about 12... 8 minutes of a CSI-NY. We decided to just skip TV completely in retaliation. And after the amount of venom spilled on NPR lately has reached toxic levels, my wife turned it off most of the time and discovered that her laptop can play YouTube and Google video... and FF3+AdBlockPlus is the best thing since the invention of intertubes.
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>And I get to play my ELP ("Pictures at the exhibition" at the moment) this side of the room. That's called nice summer weekend :).

ELP? Now there is a band I have not listened to in a long time. I listened to "Brain Salad Surgery" a lot in high school. Now I mainly remember them for epitomizing what punk was reacting against.

Yes, I did get a little serious responding to the stereo Johns, as you aptly call them. I used to think voters were smart enough to see through nonsense. I no longer think that.