Media diet: in which we watched C-SPAN2. Oh, the horror.

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A few nights ago, we turned to C-SPAN2 for filler before Adult Swim started. (Normally we'd watch Comedy Central from 2230-0000, but since Comcast upgraded our lineup, CC comes in intermittently at best so we watch History or whatever we can get in that's sufficiently entertaining.)

The National Governors Association winter meeting wasn't

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Hooray for voting!

Also, have you tried giving ComCast a call? I mean, I know it won't do any good, because they are horrible, but perhaps if you harass them enough, they'll get tired of hearing from you and either fix Comedy Central or just stop answering their phones/fax/email.

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Comcast's answer is to upgrade to digital cable. We already have a digital box in the living room and it mauls the same channels we have trouble getting in the rooms with regular cable, only to a lesser extent so the captioning isn't munged and you can usually tell what's on the screen.

Dad's sick of the extra digital charges (they "rent" the digital box and Dad's not willing to let Himself and I acquire a third-party digital box and set it up for him) and they only upgraded in the first place because Comcast said it was necessary to keep HBO, which Dad no longer wants since it's gone up to $15/month.

Also, the digital classic channels suck -- the only channel anyone watches that's not in the regular cable lineup since the "upgrade" in December (where we finally got Cartoon Network and Sci-Fi on regular cable) is Noggin.