What am i more sick of, awards shows or figure skating? Pre-empting people's favorite primetime shows with a show about people we've never heard of competing in a sport we don't care about to music we don't like- not a way to plug the Winter Olympics during the other 3.95 years. The Olympics were killed years ago anyway when they started being every two years, they lost the magic and just became a bunch of hooplah and drivel about the favored American athletes who these days end up choking it out for a bronze. Kim Zmeskal was the first famed choke and Kerri Strug followed up with the last great gold.

And back to awards shows. Is it really worth watching 3.5 hours of garbage and awards we've never heard of for people we've never heard of in movies we haven't seen, just to get to the 30 total minutes of actual stars on camera? Three hours of Grammys to hear one performance not by Kanye or the latest emo-punk-hip-hop group whose lead singer has a new solo disc out.

Those news stories, like OJ Simpson and sensational negative news...people may pretend to enjoy it or be genuinely interested, but its simply shock and awes, like watching a car wreck- 1/3 feeling bad, 1/3 curious to see how gruesome it is, 1/3 happy it wasnt them...

9/11 however was aa rare moment in American history where people united out of their laZboys to help one another for a brief time, before they returned back to the cushy boring lives.