I watch television to be entertained. Whether that means laughing at comedy or worrying about the characters on an action show, it's entertainment. I love television. There's a lot of things I hate about it, specifically the commercials, the drivel shows they come out with a lot of the time, and the technical stuff about it (mini-boxes).

Television CAN provide good entertainment depending on what you watch. If you watch cartoons these days, you're likely to beg for a lobotomy. If you watch TNT, NBC, or any other prime time network, you're probably going to be bored to tears with the staggering amount of police shows. Seriously network execs, 14 come in fall, 13 leave by spring.

Commercials suck. They really do. Like ads on an internet site, they're slowly becoming more obnoxious. A few years ago, internet ads waited patiently on the side of the screen, waiting on some unsuspecting elderly person to click on it. Now the ads get right in your face, forcing you to abandon your video to avoid a 30 second Honda commercial. They're louder than the shows by far. They last extremely long (a commercial break during Empire Strikes Back lasted 7 minutes) and even push DVR recordings past their normal timeframes. However, like ads on the internet, they are what supports that network and allow them to continue servicing the viewers.

The Nobel Prizes have never been about showing off who won this year. I have a feeling that if the winner got more attention than what they do now, it would make the Nobel Prizes seem more like a competition rather than an award ceremony. The Emmies are pretty much a competetion. Whose show did better than the others.

Television is great, it can take our mind off of things, we can relax in front of it, we can make connections with other people about it.