You got a bullet in your head.

[porphyrian]

I can't watch TV without getting furious at commercials. I hate them. I can't believe anyone could feel any different about them. I'm especially dumbfounded that anything that stupid and irritating could actually influence consumers. But they do, to the tune of millions and millions of dollars each year.

Anyway, it makes me think of this song by Rage Against The Machine. Here are the lyrics:

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
Bullet In The Head

This time the bullet cold rocked ya
A yellow ribbon instead of a swastika
Nothin' proper about ya propaganda
Fools follow the rules when the set commands ya
They said it was blue
When the blood was red
That's is how you got a bullet blasted through your head

Blasted through your head
Blasted through your head

I give a shout out to the living dead
Who stood and watched at the feds cold centralized
So serene on the screen
You was mesmerized
Cellular phones soundin' a death tone
Corporations cold
Turn ya to stone before you realize

They load the clip in omnicolor
They pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
Sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mutha fuckas lost their minds

Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high

They load the clip in omnicolor
They pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
Sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mutha fuckas lost their minds

No escape from the mass mind rape
Play it again jack and then rewind the tape
Play it again and again and again
Until ya mind is locked in
Believin' all the lies that they are tellin' ya
Buying all the products that they are selling ya
They say jump
Ya say how high
Ya brain dead
Ya gotta fuckin' bullet in your head

Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high

Ya standin' in line
Believin' the lies
Ya bowin' down to the flag
Ya got a fuckin' bullet in ya head

A lot of you parental-types (older than me, anyway) probably never heard the words to this song. It's amazing how well this song nails TV and republican propaganda in general.

Especially since it was released in 1992, when pappy bush was spending his last days polluting the White House.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Do you listen to NPR? Every five minutes.... NPR is supported by

blah blah blah..... if they would just CHANGE the damn intro, "NPR is supported by, a different voice, a computer, a dog barking, a cricket chirping, something, anything but that dial tone they call an ad.

[porphyrian]

2. I stopped listening to them around 2001.

Once the republicans were in charge, I couldn't stand their idea of "fair and balanced."

I know what you mean about the call sign crap, though. It's been irritating like that forever.