Old news but a good idea.

I know this is ancient history as the world of news goes and I know I am writing a daily blog just a wee bit early but I just gotta say, well, a good idea is a good idea. What idea ame I refferring to? Well the story, which you probably already have heard, goes like this. Nestled snuggly in the very heart of the great state of Texas, or mabye closer to one of the edges, who knows, lies a sleepy little burg once known as Clark, Texas. Incorporated in June of 2000 by the towns first mayor and founder, one Mr. Landis Clark, the growing hayseed of a town with it's bustling population of around 300 was, I am sure Mr. Landis thought, on it's way up, up, up. Things in Clark were not so I am sad to say, for a plague was apon the tiny town, a plague known as... poor television reception! You see Clark is in a void one of those many places that, I am appalled to say, still do exsist in our moderized, computerized world that is too far away from a major hub to receive, even the most basic of cable. What about aeriel television reception ? Who are these people, barbarians ? No! Something had to be done, so no longer wishing to live like entertainment troglodytes with no televised sunlight to keep them from a frozen bad rerun fate, the city voted and changed history with one great idea. On November 16, 2005 the city of Clark officially voted and passed a referendum to become the city of DISH (all capital letters), Texas. The DISH Network satallite broadcasting company gave every household in town a DVR and ten years of basic television service. Some opponents of the act say that this was a showing of corporate greed and power and a shameless publicity stunt, that a city changing its name and giving up its history for free television is just too horrible to fathom. Really ? Well I say it was a valid, brave and utterly american thing to do, I would have held out for more than basic television, you know, come on skinimax at the very least but what did these people really give up? A four year old name of a town, named after a guy who could have been a complete ass anyway. It's not as if they changed the name of Pittsburgh to Hienzeville or Seattle to Macintosh but that got me thinking, wow what an idea! If you think about the state all of our major urban areas are in now, you gotta think to yourself, " corporate sponsership couldn't be the worst Idea ". Think of the happy children laughing and playing in the newly built parks of Spamtown, Minnesota or how clean the streets are in the downtown eutopia that is Hooverberg, Ohio. Jump and sing your way through the whiskey canals of Jackdanielsville, Tennesee. Oh I know this is all just a dream that one day corporate sponsership could make the world a better place for our families and ourselves, I geuss I'll keep on dreaming. To you opponents of corporately sponsered cities I say, have no fear, this is mearly a pipe dream of the whispy and romantic sort not to really be taken seriously in any right. I mean it's ridiculous to think, even for a second, that the american people would allow history to be over taken by corporate advertising, what a silly idea indeed. That's all for me today, I am off now to try to get tickets for a game at Qualcom stadium and then this weekend I was hoping to go see the Lakers at the Staple Center or, hey what the hell, I could always take an eight hour drive up the coast and check out historic Qwest field, yeah that might cheer me up.