I don't own the idiot box due to my lifestyle. If I did have to purchase one, it would be a cheaper flatscreen for use with my laptop as a larger monitor or to watch DVDs on something less herky-jerky than my laptop's abused DVD drive. I think you need a lifestyle that can dedicate time to a TeeVee in order to really warrant purchasing one.
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I think the television is responsible for the abysmal self-esteem and obesity that a good chunk of America totes and is a brilliant social pacification / torture method that not even those fuckwits the Nazis could have thought up. We do it to ourselves and we like it!
It has redeeming shows, sure, but they're so few and far in between the en masse crap.
Reminds me of that Misfits song from back in the day:
"My eyeballs absorb only blue-filtered light! TV casualty, TV casualty..."
Also, Black Flag's "TeeVee Party" song from the '80s: