So Long Broadcast Television and Cable Companies for That Matter

As I had previously stated just 11 days ago "The sole reason why cable companies and the Networks haven't had to cut their workforces drastically is the amount of money generated by NFL television contracts. These jobs will vanish once the NFL goes to a subscription based streaming service that doesn't require Direct TV." Well those jobs seem to be on their way out sooner than even my cold heart could have imagined. It appears that Google is going after the NFL Sunday Ticket deal which is due to expire next year. 

If Google decides it wants to buy the rights to that package there is little doubt they will be able to outbid any competitor for said rights. This would basically put to an end the cable system and allow the customers a less expensive, more efficient and convenient way to view the programing they want. More people would begin paying for individual shows rather than paying for entire networks. 

It would also continue to drive down Google's main competitor Apple's already shrinking market share as the NFL package would surely be designed to run on the Android platform.  Is this a great country or what?

It Appears Movies and TV Have Lied to Me

Soon to be fifth grade student Tyler Weaver has been consistently winning a summer reading contest in upstate New York. This has lead library's director Marie Gandron to ask that he quits competing because the other kids cannot keep up. 

Asking this kid not to compete because he is too good is like the United States Swimming Coaching suggesting the Michael Phelps just do bong tokes instead of competing because the other guys cannot beat him. I mean what kind of a librarian ask a kid not to enter a reading contest because he reads too well?

Clearly the woman to the right would never ask a kid to stop reading. Unless late night Cinemax has lied to me that woman would give all sorts of incentives to encourage reading. (editors note: if the woman in the picture to the right is reading this call us)

Lets face it the highlight of this kids life for the foreseeable future is going to be these reading contests. Soon enough puberty will hit and he will notice girls at which point winning all these reading contests will work against him. So let him have his moment of glory. He has earned it and soon he will be picked on in Middle School by all those kids he beat. He will be hearing this soon enough. 

Oh wait this is the kind of librarian that would do something this absurd. Now it makes sense, if you had to see that every morning in the mirror you'd be mad as well.

If that's what librarians really look like I guess movies and TV have lied to me.