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The Wasteland of TV

December 26, 2021 – 6:51 am

TS Eliot wrote his groundbreaking elegy to commemorate the slaughter of a generation in WWI. April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. The poet’s first four lines have symbolized the boredom of waiting for summer to millions, but the wasteland […]

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TV Terror

April 27, 2016 – 10:00 am

When I was young, my father called the TV the ‘boob tube’. He felt that the programming made us idiots. He was right. I loved THE THREE STOOGES. Later my father railed against the senseless violence on the TV. “Only will breed violence.” He was right again. This country is full of violence, but some […]

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