Tonight, I realized just how much I dislike network news.

After eating with my parents, my father turned on the NBC Nightly News. The first thing they showed were students from the high school in Florida where 17 people were killed by a gunamn last week, as well as students from other high schools across the state, marching to the state capitol in Tallahassee, demanding the state legislature adopt gun control laws.

Throughout the piece, Savannh Guthrie, who was substituting as anchor for Lester Holt, was fawning all over the student protestors, implying that they were 100 percent right to demand gun control, and that those who were opposed to stricter gun control laws were dead wrong and supported mass murder.

Are you kidding me?

What ever happened to watching the news and making up our own minds? Savannah and her colleagues think the general public is too stupid to make up their own minds, and that you must believe their position, or else you are an uninformed idiot.

I only had to watch five minutes to realize just how much I cannot stand it. It was five mintues more than I should have watched, and I will do all I can to never, ever watch NBC, CBS or ABC news as long as I live.

I never watched NBC when I lived in Louisiana, nor did I watch it until my parents moved to Kansas 11 years ago. I was never a Tom Brokaw or Brian Williams fan, and I cannot stand Lester Holt, either. And don’t get me started about Savannah Guthrie. She is a confirmed marriage destroyer.

That’s one reason I don’t like eating with my parents on weekenights. I do not want to watch that crap.

I am so angry right now. Really angry. I’m trying my best not to let out a spew of nasty words. It’s not the way to do it. Also, I promised not to do so for Lent, and hopefully carry it over after that.

It was the first time I watched any sort of network newscast since the shooting. I am determined to make it my last, period.

I’m not going to take a side. I don’t want to. There are too many people I see out there taking sides, and I don’t think anything is achieved by spouting back and forth. One person in particular won’t shut up about it on social media. I won’t name this person, but I know who this person is.

For those of you who are watching the network news at 5:30 Central every weeknight, stop. Find something better to watch. Your brain will thank you.

Another reason not to watch NBC, especially right now: THE OLYMPICS.

I don’t watch the Olympics. I haven’t in 30 years, and I admit, I wasted too much time watching them when I was much younger. Then again, I did not know any better. I am sick of my mother talking about it.

Maybe there’s a good reason I’ve been watching Last Chance U, Bunk’d and Jessie over and over when I’m at home or in a hotel room, even though I’ve seen every episode multiple times. And I still have my complete series DVD sets of Monk, The OC and One Tree Hill, plus I can watch all 18 1/2 seasons of Law & Order: SVU on Hulu.

Thank God for streaming and DVDs. Or else I might have gone off the deep end.

Oh well something to talk about with Crista tomorrow. I hope for her sake her daughter hasn’t seen any of this ugliness. It’s not appropriate for children.

Happy birthday Caitlyn! I love you!