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Apparently the Strib, as part of its slow descent into complete obsolescence, is canceling “TV Week,” which has upset some number of readers who seem to think they compose a significant class.

Unfortunately no one asked me, my family or my friends if we still read TV Week. No one asked us if our programming information is available on screen – which it isn’t. We aren’t subscribers of satellite or digital cable. Call us old-fashioned, but we love our weekly TV Guide.

Love?

So, the TV isn’t a big part of my life anymore. I’m more of a book/internet/real life kind of guy. Despite the fact that we have satellite Jenny and I just don’t watch TV very often at all. Maybe once a month.

So it’s hard to imagine the life of someone who writes this:

As a child, I remember being gently scolded for drawing on the TV guide. It was at this point that I realized the TV guide was more than just scrap paper, it was a part of our family’s social calendar. Are we busy Friday night? Check the TV guide. Is our favorite show on this week? Check the TV guide. Anything good on tonight? Check the TV guide. What are we going to do without it?

Here’s hoping this life-change turns out ok for her.

From the NY Times…

I’m glad I can link to Paul Krugman again.

Politics aside, the Graeme Frost case demonstrates the true depth of the health care crisis: every other advanced country has universal health insurance, but in America, insurance is now out of reach for many hard-working families, even if they have incomes some might call middle-class.

And there’s one more point that should not be forgotten: ultimately, this isn’t about the Frost parents. It’s about Graeme Frost and his sister.

I don’t know about you, but I think American children who need medical care should get it, period. Even if you think adults have made bad choices — a baseless smear in the case of the Frosts, but put that on one side — only a truly vicious political movement would respond by punishing their injured children.

Go read the entire column if you don’t know what this is all about.