I laughed out loud. Congratulations.

I absolutely LOVE the way Heather summarizes the writers' strike. She's right: the congloms are sticking it to the writers, who deserve to participate in the profits of their creations. The "man" is bigger and badder than ever. This attitude of "hurray for me and fuck you" is all over Corporate America. The ones at the top benefit, and everyone else can suck wind. It's important to fight for what's right, and support others who are waging battles for fair wages and profit. Keep banging this drum for thr writers, Heather. People hear you!

"As our once-great nation trips on the hem of its cape, we all have to face the ugly facts about how often working people get screwed over these days without any repercussions. When working people unite for a common goal, and refuse to be trampled on by abusive corporate profit takers, that's something worth fighting for."

How can any one of us improve on that statement?

Huh?

/listening

"Next Trump stated that the entire group of celebrities had been "hand-selected" by him. Really? We're expected to believe that the Donald took time out of his busy robber-baron schedule to call the producers and say, "Hey, find out if former Olympic softball player Jennie Finch is available!"?"

I have an extremely jaded, dark sense of humor, and it takes a lot to make me laugh really hard. It can't just funny; it has to come out of nowhere, have perfect execution, and then it has to have something else that I can't even describe without my ridiculous, high pitched, 8-year-old girl laugh that happens less than ten times a year.

Congratulations, Ms. Heather Havrilesky: by so succinctly summarizing all that is wrong with Donald Trump, the entire concept of that godforsaken show, former Olympic softball player Jennie Finch, and reality shows exclusively cast with D-list-from-10-years-ago celebrities, you hath made me shriek like a little girl.

Sorry, but that article was sickening.

I do not know which is worse, Heather's glib commentary or the fact that she obviously enjoys watching television and its shows (whatever shows happen to be on) way too much. You want to complain that some network executives tapped into your Greek appreciation, please; why not just admit that you have nothing better to do and your very viewing of this crap is an endorsement. Admit it Heather, you love that television whatever it spews forth, you'd not know how to live without it.

Next time it would be simpler to just write, "There are a bunch of shows on television that I am going to pretend I do not enjoy watching while I enjoy watching them, and I'm going to act like I have actual concern for my country and Humanity but actually I am just a sarcastic and vapid person who is incapable of taking anything seriously because I am literally mentally deficient (and of course I am well-insulated from the actual horrors of the world so I can just transform those horrors into hilarious sassiness)."

Do you know why it is called Television? Because it tells you your vision. That's right, it tells-a-vision. So I recommend you Heather start forming some visions of your own before you have to look back on this existence and realize that nothing you knew came from yourself; what you knew was only what you were fed -and you chose to eat!

I would appreciate being able to post this comment that lets everyone know that I didn't know that Heather Havrilesky of "I like to watch" whom I just thought of as some kind of television commentor (fark tv) as being cabable of intelligently commenting on the real times of our lives. Sorry, HH. Your comments tonight have been very good and inspiring, in my humble opinion.

...is the best.

1. you are a depraved, debauched, fading imperial, consumer clone, or,

2. you are all that, but there's a little spark of humanity left over from when you shared your 8th birthday cake with the poorish kid next door who wasn't invited to the party, or,

3. you are all that, but primarily filling up some space lest the world forget how important you are?

i'm going with number 3 'til i hear from you..

I was about to compliment Havrilesky for talking seriously about the writer's strike, while knocking her down a little for the frivolous, stupid way she opened the article. On the whole she was on the plus side this week.

And then you had to spoil it all by saying something stupid like "You're morons."

It may not be apparent from the tall ivory tower, with neither window nor door, where you spend all your life, but some human beings like to connect to one another. Yes, even we unlettered ones down here, which do not deserve to know Your Holiest of Names.

For the record, television is the last way we can recognize each other as human beings with worth. We can't leave our homes without being raped or killed. There is no such thing as community, anywhere in America. Even sex inevitably leads to jealousy, posessiveness and murder. Even with its commercialism, fraud and occasional stupidity, television has the ability to unite our pulverized nation. Nothing else does.

Oh, you who hide your name in fear of the wrath you so richly deserve, you talk of "experience" but it's undoubtedly the navel-staring kind. You are so frightened of the outside world that you are unable to imagine television having any worth. While I despise the elitism and snottiness that Havrilesky, in her worst moments, puts in her column, you are worse, and you are truly worthy of the worst fate imaginable - an in-depth interview by Pat O'Brien on The Insider.

To Havrilesky: Your talk about the WGA strike is terrific, with one small exception. You could have mentioned "Pencils 2 Media Moguls," where for a dollar contribution via PayPal, we civilians can buy a box of twelve pencils to be delivered, en masse, to the six CEO's who are refusing to negotiate with the writers in good faith.

As of New Year's Eve, 650,026 have been bought. Since empty suits like Sumner Redstone and Leslie Moonves don't know what to do with pencils, aside from stab them into the eyes of the poor people grovelling at their feet, any pencils they refuse delivery upon will be contributed to New York's American Federation of Teachers. Appropriate, since under the economics that makes such CEO's rich, American public schools can no longer afford to buy pencils for their students. With my next paycheck, I'm going to buy another twenty boxes of pencils.

I'd ask you to do the same, Anonymous, but it's obvious you don't care for anyone but your own image in the mirror.