A Strutting Devil Is Now Feeling In Control

All of you who are familiar with my commentary are likewise familiar with my utter contempt for television. I quit the tube nearly 40 years ago, and 'I've never looked back.' When I did that, my friends were looking at me in bewilderment and asking me, "How in the world do you survive?! What do you do with your spare time?! How can you and your family stand it?!" And only a week into that self-imposed 'fast', I began answering them in candor and complete sincerity saying, "I have my life back! I am beginning to live my life in spontaneity, day by day! It's marvelous, you really should try it!" Often, the friends of mine who had overheard the chatter from the gossip chain told me that I was the subject of great concern. Some of the people accused me of overmuch Christian zeal, and that my move of complete abstinence was the result of some kind of hyper-Christian paranoia. But the truth was that I was simply tired of living my life vicariously through the attention-capturing one-eyed idiot that was beginning to ensnare my sweet children's minds as well.