VP Debate
This is not intended to become a heavy or whiny political blog (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but I will offer this: one side of the debate last night represented style, the other substance. I’ll leave it as an excersise for the reader to decide which is which.
The debate did serve as a minor test of my household’s decision to go without TV service. So far, for about a year now, we’ve relied on nothing but DVDs and video on the computer, (be it video from network websites, YouTube, or iTunes) and it’s worked really well. We only have a few primtetime shows that we follow, and we don’t think network news is worth a darn. For a panicked moment we were unable to find a full video feed of the debate. The Washington Post had our back, but it was looking like we were going to be left waiting until the next day for a second there. This was a fate we wanted to avoid, since to us the debate seemed like the new episode of Heroes or Grey’s; you don’t want to read the shocking highlights on Yahoo! News before you have a chance to enjoy the narrative in its original form. Spoiler avoidance for a political debate: who knew?
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