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By the title of this post, you might think that I'm going to bash television...telling you that you should stay away, and that, afterall, good Christians shouldn't be spending so much time in front of the boob tube. We'll it's not like that. I like TV. I grew up during the golden age of TV. I mean, good grief, TV dinners were common in my household.

But it really is amazing how prevalent TV is in our lives. TVs are everywhere. We are a media-crazed, information-addicted society. I have four TVs in my house (and a computer with high-speed internet...and a portable DVD player for the car). It's amazing how addicted we all are to media.

I like TV. I LOVE to watch sports on TV. I love to watch movies. Jenny and I watch about two movies from Netflix a week. But as much as I like TV, believe it or not, I don't have a single TV show that I watch regularly (except for when it's American Idol season--our family rarely misses an episode). I have shows I like (Dog The Bounty Hunter, Glenn Beck, American Chopper, Parental Control, to name a few), but I don't watch any one show faithfully (again, with the exeption of American Idol with the family). But I watch TV almost every single day. So what am I watching? Absolutely everything. I can watch eight shows at once due to my skillful handling of the remote control. Are you at all like me? Chances are if you're a guy, you are. Women tend not to flip through channels the way guys do. Man, I just sit down and start flippin'. I'm not really as interested in what's on as I am in what else is on. Drives Jenny crazy sometimes.

Why am I like this? I'm not sure. But I think it stems from one source: commercials. I just flat-out hate commercials. Can't stand 'em. Durning American Idol, it seems as though there are as many commercials as there are contestants. During an NFL game it goes like this: Touchdown-commercials-kickoff-commericals-three plays, timeout-commericals-punt-commericals-touchdown-more commercials. Good grief. And as if that's not enough, they add more commercials during the game (tonight on FOX, a dark secret has kept one man in hiding for more than a decade, tune in tonight...), or today's game is brought to you by...(yeah, caught that, they all had commercials less than 30 seconds ago!).

So, my mission in life is this: to avoid commericals. If a commerical comes on, click...next channel...check back...still on commerical...click...click...click...

I do the same thing in my car. Radio seems to be getting worse and worse with commericals. If one comes on, I'm gone to the next station. Problem is: it seems they all do commercials at the same time! I have literally scanned then entire radio dial at times and found nothing but commercials!

Thank God for the remote control. Click.