30 idiots complain about Celebrity Big Brother.

The Daily Star reported that 30 people had complained to Ofcom about Celebrity Big Brother, specifically the task that required some of the housemates to perform 18-rated entertainment, a task that by the way, producers had to censor for broadcast after the 9pm watershed.

Honestly, what do these 30 people think they are watching?  Celebrity Big Brother is nothing more than licenced and legalised voyeurism.  It's the only way the general public can watch celebrities being themselves without finding themselves in court on a stalking charge.

Unsurprisingly, Mediawatch, the ex-Mary Whitehouse organisation, ciriticised it, but then, that's not news.

It's not high culture, it's programming designed to appeal to the base instincts.  That was just another expression of that. 

By the way, extra hypocrisy points go to Daily Star and Channel 5 owner, Richard Desmond.  He owns the channel that commissioned it because he wanted material to fill up his newspapers and magazines, and now his own newspaper is giving voice to those criticising the programme on his own channel, and partially encouraging the criticism.  That takes a total lack of any scruples.  If you are going to have a programme on your own channel, and you allow your own newspaper to be critical, then you are undermining the staff who produce the programme, and you are also saying that you are only interested in ratings and sales, not in anything else. 

Goodbye Yankee Stadium.

So, for the final time tonight, the Cathedral that is Yankee Stadium will host it's final regular season game, and in all likelyhood, given the fact that the Yankees are 9 games back on the AL East leading Tampa Bay Devil Rays, this could well be the LAST EVER game at Yankee Stadium.

In the UK, Channel 5 will have coverage of this amazing night. The New York Yankees official website has tons of material relating to Yankee Stadium, and the end of 85 years of Yankee history. I for one will be taping tonight's broadcast. It'll be fascinating to watch.