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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody via kwout

Seriously 200 billion hours squandered watching TV. Now Jeannie pointed out rightly that the people watching all that TV and the people writing long articles on the wikipedia might not be the same people. Meaning that if we were to all give up TV simultaneously the world wouldn't likely jump up and start to do useful things. Holy crap 200 billion hours of TV blows my mind.

Last night's episode was one of the funniest episodes of The Office I've seen. I like to host awkward dinner parties but this completely tops anything I've ever done.

You can watch it yourself on hulu.com.

You have probably heard about the death of Don Knotts.

I watched a lot of Andy Griffith when I was a kid. One repeating theme of the show was Andy's kindness to Barney. Barney was annoying, difficult and emotionally overwrought -- but always Andy watched out for him and was kind to him even when any rational person would have been far less forgiving. It's not that Barney was bad, to the contrary he could be very sweet, but he was difficult.

These two TV characters have always meant a lot to me since I have always wished I had the kind and decent character qualities of Sherriff Andy while privately fearing my inner Deputy Barney tendencies.