I believe I could very well be the only person in America with a TV set who has never watched a single so-called reality show.  I also believe that many of you are sitting there convinced that if I’m not outright lying, I am certainly stretching the truth to the breaking point.  How could anyone, you’re asking yourselves, not have tuned in for 15 minutes of “Survivor” or “The Bachelor” or caught a tango or two on “Dancing With the Stars”?

The answer quite simply is that I’m just not interested.  I’m not a snob where TV is concerned.  I watch “Monk” if I’m home, some old movies on TCM, baseball from April to October, and I’m a big fan of the Canadian sit com, “Corner Gas.”

But why would I want to spend my time watching Jane Seymour or Marie Osmond dancing or Simon Cowell scowling?  A better question is: why are so many of you planning your lives around these shows?  Don’t people have hobbies anymore?  Is nobody out there crocheting or putting ships in bottles or whittling?  Isn’t anyone playing canasta or charades? [more]