Today’s USA TODAY included a full-page ad, endorsed by well-known trend-setting actor Pat Boone (!), urging an end to violence in music, movies, and television. The ad urged grandparents everywhere to sign a handy pre-printed petition, mail it in, and tell Hollywood that we’re sick and tired of children fornicating and killing themsleves after watching the likes of Sex in the City.
Over my breakfast veggie links, I said aloud, “I’m gonna sign this petition! I wanna do my part to stop the violence! In fact, I want to do away with television entirely!”
Clyde, not quite through with his morning coffee, noted, “Every t.v. I’ve ever seen’s got an off switch. Folks oughta use it.”
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