Sickoes

 Sickoes.  I can't stand 'em!  But lots of folks must like them.

I define sickoes as those who get a kick out of people doing nasty things to other people.  Torture, incest, rape, murder - and on and on.  What the hell is wrong with these people?

Watched an episode of Law and Order last night.  A guy repeatedly beat his wife and abused his young daughter; and his wife was okay with it!

What's the attraction to this type of book, TV, movie, video, whatever?  Is the 'Human Race' really that inhuman?  Or, is it a small minority?  If so, why is there so much of it?  

I don't know.  It disturbs me.  Deeply.

1950s TV Shows

 Remember when your dad brought home that first TV with a 13" screen in a console?  If you were lucky and had a rotor for the antenna, you could get 3 stations - on a good day.  For the younger crowd: the rotor turned the rooftop antenna so you could receive station signals from different directions.  Sometimes a vacuum tube would burn out, so you'd go to the store and replace it.

Westerns were the most plentiful type of series:

The Rifleman

Wagon Train

Bonanza

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Lone Ranger

Others, I liked:

Ozzie and Harriet

Sea Hunt

Sky King

Lassie

Dragnet

Victory at Sea

Wild Kingdom

There were many others but that's a long enough walk down memory lane.