I hate to start your day sounding like a crank. But sometimes I just have to.
I'll begin at the beginning. Every summer for the last few years, CBS-TV has aired a program called Big Brother. They put a number of people into a small "house", gives them simple tasks to perform, then waits for them to start acting like rats in a maze. I can excuse the players getting loopy.After all, they're in the maze. But when the viewers lose their sense of reality, I lose it too.