Wednesday whinge: Cooking, building, celebrity shows, and feelpinions
This Wednesday winge is a call to boycott the cooking shows, the renovating shows, and the squawking shows. Now, I have been accused of being arrogant before. People may have even called me sanctimonious, out of touch, and hard to get to know. But on this one I am spot on: from our politics to our popular entertainment we are drowning feelpinions. Since well before Richard Burton returned from his exotic adventures in the nineteenth century and published 43 books for an eager British public Western culture has always been obsessed with celebrity and celebrity opinions. Then, as now, …