Welcome to The Hoosier Illuminati. Macintosh bigot, clothes horse, motorsports fanatic (as long as they turn right), Anglophile.

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It didn’t take Obama long to annoy me.

We’ve only known about the analog to digital TV switchover for THREE YEARS.  Not months, not weeks, not days… YEARS.  No one can legitimately claim to have been caught by surprise by this if they watch television.

So, of course, Obama is concerned that there just wasn’t enough time. 

The Senate has voted to delay for four months the switch to digital TV meant to occur in a mere three weeks, giving President Barack Obama the national breather he sought and setting up a House vote which could occur as early as Tuesday.

Broadcasters are dead-set against any delay, with an essentially ‘enough is enough’ position. Putting off D(igital)-Day would be confusing, what with all those PSAs running on TV advising us that it’s just about here. And then there is the small matter of what the switch is supposed to accomplish: freeing up spectrum for use by wireless companies and public safety agencies.

So although we’ve known about this for three years, another four months is going to make a difference?  People who couldn’t be bothered for three years to run down to HH Gregg and pick up a converter box are now suddenly going to leap off the couch because Brak gave them the official heads-up? 

What happens in June when this extension expires and the same people still aren’t ready?  Pull the freaking plug already.  These morons will just have to do without their Survivor/American Idol fix for a few days, they get what they deserve.