Congress threatens Oscar the Grouch
Hi. It's been a while. I'll go into that some other time.

For now, go to MoveOn.org to sign their petition urging Congress not to cut funding to our beloved public television and radio programming. The first items on the block are near and dear to my heart because they are near and dear to the bun, namely Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow.

These last bastions of non-commercial media are threatened, and I don't want my son to grow up in a wasteland of commercial television with no alternatives. And when he gets older, he should have the choice between CNN, FOX, MSNBC crap-tastic News or NPR. We will be a gravely impoverished country without these last resources.

So even if you never listen to NPR, or watch Sesame Street, please remember your own youth and the (hopefully) fond memories you have of Oscar singing the praises of trash.

He wasn't talking about trashy television. No one needs more of that.

Oscar and Ernie need you. I need you. The bun really, really needs you. Thanks.