With another downpour all day, tonight it was television for us.
I've been watching nothing but public television, one show after another. First was Bill Moyers, who interviewed environmental photographer James Balog who has been mounting expeditions to look at evaporating glaciers. His soon to be released documentary Chasing Ice will be out soon.
Next came Call the Midwives, a series about British midwives working out of a nunnery after World War II. There were some interesting insights about the beginning of socialized medicine.
Then it was Upstairs, Downstairs, Series 2. The previous series from the 1970s took the residents of Eaton Place from the sinking of the Titanic through the end of WWI. The present series brings the new staff to the beginning of WWII. Tonight, the first Jewish children arrived in England.
Now I'm watching Garrow's Law about an 18th century lawyer. Again, a great British period piece.
One great interviewer and three British series, and during the whole evening there was not a single political ad to misinform and irritate me. How pleasant to avoid politics for an entire evening.
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney says that the United States should cut off public television financing something that would do next to nothing to cure the national debt. His plan is that PBS should pay its way through advertising.
As I watch public television this evening, I think about what it would be like once the Super PACs get hold of public television and fill the programming with disgusting attack ads.
There's to be a Million Muppet March on Washington DC in November. I am so tempted to tag along.
I've been watching nothing but public television, one show after another. First was Bill Moyers, who interviewed environmental photographer James Balog who has been mounting expeditions to look at evaporating glaciers. His soon to be released documentary Chasing Ice will be out soon.
Next came Call the Midwives, a series about British midwives working out of a nunnery after World War II. There were some interesting insights about the beginning of socialized medicine.
Then it was Upstairs, Downstairs, Series 2. The previous series from the 1970s took the residents of Eaton Place from the sinking of the Titanic through the end of WWI. The present series brings the new staff to the beginning of WWII. Tonight, the first Jewish children arrived in England.
Now I'm watching Garrow's Law about an 18th century lawyer. Again, a great British period piece.
One great interviewer and three British series, and during the whole evening there was not a single political ad to misinform and irritate me. How pleasant to avoid politics for an entire evening.
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney says that the United States should cut off public television financing something that would do next to nothing to cure the national debt. His plan is that PBS should pay its way through advertising.
As I watch public television this evening, I think about what it would be like once the Super PACs get hold of public television and fill the programming with disgusting attack ads.
There's to be a Million Muppet March on Washington DC in November. I am so tempted to tag along.
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