The best remedy is to stop watching TV entirely, AND to stop listening to radio also. In this way you can avoid annoying songs, plus 95% of all advertising! You can also avoid hearing all kinds of bad news that you can't do anything about anyway, and it will greatly improve your daily state of mind, which will help the world a lot more than worrying about the bad news ever did. If we all did this, we could wreck havoc on the commercial system around us.

Another course of action I recommend is regarding junk mail with a return evelope, postage paid:

collect a bunch of 'em, fill out their forms with totally bogus information, then mix them all up so that the form for one is in another's envelope, and mail 'em back.

They pay for it, and it wastes their time...which is only fair, considering they have wasted yours ever since you reached adulthood.

One more suggestion: Get an unlisted phone number. If you still get called by a telemarketer somehow, there are a number of highly creative ways of wasting his/her time too, such as placing the receiver next to a stereo speaker on which is playing Dylan's song "Like A Rolling Stone". That usually drives 'em away fairly quickly, unless they are Dylan fans, and research has proven that very few telemarketers are.

There was a song driving me nuts a few days ago, but I have fortunately forgotten what it was...thank God!

- LH