I support you in your abandonment of TV. It’s just....worthless, IMO.
Also agree on Batchelor. He’s quite amazing when he interviews some historian who writes a convoluted and complex book on some narrow era in history...like the first 5 months of the Crimean War...in the sense that seems to be able to ask a hundred questions that appear to show he read and absorbed 1000+ plus page books. I don’t understand how he does that!
He is a tad of a climate changeist, IMO, and that would be my only objection to him. He’s very intelligent.
Batchelor speed reads, has a photographic memory and reads one book per day.
Yep, he has a couple weak spots. 1. He’s an evolutionist and a long earth believer - billions and billions of years. This does not compute for me, but I have a solution: advance to the next interview. 2. I’d say Batchelor’s climate is changing re: global warmery. He is always ready and eager to discuss the rampant deceptions and flagrant data manipulations in which the warmists engage. And he gives tons of time to many experts who expoe the lies and power grabs and sinister agenda of the EPA and its various cohorts and apologists. On this topic, I think Batchelor is going through a bit of a graceful withdrawal, along with some other prominent Cons and Pubbies like Newt, McCain, Medved and others who for a brief season, bought into the Great Warming Hoax but got burned. This is my opinion but I think fairly defensible.