Because I Said So
by Charlie Geer
This week Noted Abroad turns off the television. Our friend John B. once pointed out that all you have to do is turn the thing off, and as a matter of course, unless you want to pass the rest of the day loafed on the couch staring blankly at nothing, you will find something else to do, perhaps something more rewarding and/or enlightening to do. If you really do want to pass the rest of the day loafed on the couch staring blankly at nothing, you’d just as well leave the television on, so as to at least feel like you are actually engaged in some activity, i.e. actually conscious. But noted abroad is going to give Spanish TV a rest for now, and rather happily turn back to linguistic affairs.
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