This is the blog wherein I channel Andy Rooney (or some other curmudgeon)

Did you ever wonder why Court TV became Tru TV?

• Suppose it was so they could endlessly air mindless, sensational shows like "Most Daring" and "Most Shocking" to amuse adolescent males who are into watching car chases, crashes and people getting maimed?


• Did they call it TRU TV rather than True TV because they have a soupcon of shame? If they wanted to be TRUthful, they would have called it "Shock" TV.


• Who came up with that obnoxious motto: "Not reality - actuality!" God, it's aggravating. One more moronic corruption of the language. Can something be real without being actual? Or actual without being real? According to the thesaurus, these words are synonyms.

Did you ever wonder why Vincent D'Onofrio can approach the size of a grey whale with no negative consequences, but when Delta Burke got fat, she was driven off the air?

Does Harrison Ford look like the 3,000 year old man, or what? I can't wait to see the final episode of "Geriatric Jones, and the Quest for the Fountain of Youth". Did you ever wonder why male actors can find work until they're older than dirt, but a female actor's career is pretty much over at 40?

I think I may be watching too much television. I am actually (really) bringing to care about this crap!