I take your meaning, McGrath, but it's in human nature to take the easy route, and with Fox providing news as entertainment, with the bread and circuses routine going on in the US now (reality TV, the Simpsons, movies such as Dumb and Dumber), I wonder if people are forgetting how to think, in lieu of being entertained.

I loathe TV, but watch when it's something that really interests me. Being a big baseball fan, I've been watching the pennant race, and now the World Series. But the commercials they show for the new TV shows -- yuk!! I can't believe that people seriously watch this stuff and then discuss it the next day.

One show they advertise is called "24," and it evidently offers terrorism as entertainment. If that isn't cynical, I don't know what is.