Directv, Fall from grace

Yesterday I got my DirecTv bill in the mail.  I saw that they started to bill me for the Sunday Ticket package.  They changed the plan this year, for the better.  For the past several years the sold the Sunday Ticket for like $300.  However, if you wanted the “luxury” of watching the games in HD you had to pay another $100 for the Superfan package, a TOTAL rip off and money grab.  The fact that ANYONE is charging a premium for HD in 2010 is ridiculous.

Well it looks like they finally came to their senses, they are no longer charging extra for HD.  However they still have an add on package that they were happy to charge me for without asking. For an extra $50 you can watch the games on your computer and/or smart phone.  A nice little geeky add on but something I really have no use for, why waste the 50 bucks?  I called Directv and asked them to kindly remove the add on.

I have said time and again, generally speaking, the more you know about somebody the less you will like them.  In the past couple days that has certainly been true for me after reading details of two celebrity controversy’s.

First I read the transcript the woman gave police regarding the Al Gore massage incident. Wow.  No wonder Al & Tipper are calling it quits.  He comes off sounding like a big, fat, nasty perv.  I mean grabbing her hand and mashing it into his pubes? Jamming his tongue down her throat like a scene from Aliens?  Gross dude.  Stick to saving the world.

Then I heard the Mel Gibson rant to his ultra-hot Russian girlfriend.   He sounds like a certified maniac, and a woman beating, racist one at that.  What a piece of shit he is.

I just can’t help but feel sickened by the hypocrisy that Mel and so many other “good Catholics” put on display for the world to see.  Listen to the tape, it is unreal.