The Learning Channel?

I started my highly productive evening by watching The Learning Channel. What did I learn you ask? Well, quite a bit actually.

I learned that TLC is effectively the modern equivalent of the circus side show, or freak shows, from the early 1900's. All the shows and the advertisements for TLC that were on this evening were about women who discovered they were pregnant when the baby's head crowned, little people, a New Yorker who speaks to dead people, and obese people obsessed with food. That last one I made up. Mostly. Cake Boss does sort of fit that description.