Reality TV

This is going to be my own private rant about "Reality TV" and the more than 100, that is right I said over 100 that are on television at any time of the day or night. However I am tired of hearing & seeing about the sex lives, dancing kids with diva instructors, families with more than four kids, surviving "Naked & Afraid", or "Real Housewives" which is truly a laugh because if these women truly had to do what a "real housewife" had to do daily without all the money they wouldn't last a day, let alone a week or a month. Personally, "Keeping Up with the Kardashian's" is only glorifying how dysfunctional this very rich family is. 

Have we become so shallow or bored with our lives that we have to live vicariously through television? 

Yes, I watch reality television, some of my favorite shows are on: HGTV, A & E, Cooking Channel, PBS, Animal Planet, Science Channel, and NatGeo. I have my favorite shows like everyone does, some favorite shows are "Downton Abbey", "NCIS: LA", "Amazing Race", "Pit Bulls & Paroles", "Hell's Kitchen", "Bering Sea Gold", and "How It's Made". As you can tell by my list of stations I don't watch too much on LifeTime, TLC, ABC, NBC, OWN, or TruTv, I am trying to avoid drama in my television watching, everyday life has enough.

As I stated this is my own private rant. No animals, were harmed during its typing. 

Edward M. Kennedy Institute

Today in Boston, Massachusetts the "Edward M Kennedy Institute for The United States Senate" was dedicated and opened to the public. It isn't a shrine to the Senator whom served the people of Massachusetts for 47 as a state senator. It is a teaching tool for all people to learn how the Senate works (or doesn't work). It is very well known that Senator Kennedy crossed the aisle of the senate floor many times to make legislation work, to make life better for all of us. 

This institute is a teaching tool for our young people also. It has a full scale U.S. Senate Chamber that resembles in every way the one in Washington, D.C. where he and his brother, the late John F. Kennedy served before being elected President. This chamber is electronically equipped with interactive tablets that a group of students can use to create, argue, vote, and pass a bill into law. I for one hope that this will get much use as teachers bring their students here to use this teaching tool.

While many remember Senator Kennedy as the man whom was involved in an automobile accident at Chappaquiddick where Mary Jo Kopechne was killed. Many feel that he "got away with murder" because he was never indicted, nor faced charges in her death. I for one remember the man whom lost two brother within a few years of each other, the man whom chose public service over the private sector where he would have done well. 

I share the link below for the institute. 

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https://www.emkinstitute.org/