Honey, I'm cancelling the cable!

I am canceling our cable TV. Now I know why they call television the idiot box and most importantly the BOOB TUBE! When I sit down to watch TV at night, I find out in about 2 minutes that there isn't anything worth watching.

Maybe, there are three shows I actually want to watch. MTV doesn't play videos anymore at all. VH-1 shows the same, I think it's 20 videos for several hours every morning. Who cares if some wacko is taking the police for a ride on the expressway in California? Is a car chase something we have to watch for three dull hours? The only reason I know this is because I broke my wrist and had to stay home for three weeks after we had one blizzard after another.

I feel like I'm at a bar every night right in my own home. With reality TV shows like the one with Bret Michaels with the 'girls' running around ripping their clothes off for him, I sort of feel like I'm 20 again, at a dark bar, watching some lousy bar band.

By the way, when did it become acceptable to show completely naked women on TV? The three 'girls' that live with Hugh Hefner on the Girls Next Door got their picture taken for probably Playboy completely naked on E Television. They showed it all with three areas digitilized. I quickly changed the channel at this hour because we have kids in our home. Then I went back and there they still were on cable TV completely naked. Wasn't this stuff supposed to be shown only on the you have to pay still more money channels like HBO, Playboy, and Showtime?

Then I turned off the TV, and still in shock, sat there stunned as my face went totally red, and my husband sat there laughing. I told him I was cancelling the cable on Monday. Why pay for trash TV to be brought in to your home? I ran downstairs to see what my teenage son was doing in his bedroom. I actually felt better when I saw him sitting in his room playing some game on his computer.

Do you realize what I said? Even that isn't safe anymore, he has a computer in his room that was given to him by his Grandparents. WHAT? Do they know what's on the Internet and how easy it is to get it? I know I can't keep my kids innocent, and safe forever, but wouldn't it be nice to let them reach the age of 12 without seeing naked girls on TV? No wonder half of the U.S. does recreational drugs, because we're bombarded with supposed reality TV day 24-7.

There's so much more to do than watch TV--like staring at the ceiling, scrubbing the toilets.
Really there is a lot more to do than watch the shocking parade of stupidy every night. Read a book, jump on the Internet, talk to your family, play a boardgame, rent a movie, but don't watch TV, unless you want your arm to get sore from turning the channels for two hours straight.