Budget Cuts

I guess it's official: catastrophic budget cuts are here.  Yesterday the Lodging Office at the base where I'm doing C-17 re-qualification training notified me that they are disconnecting cable service in all lodging facilities due to lack of funding. 

For the aspiring social scientists out there, this sounds like a great opportunity for an experiment.  I'm willing to bet that after a few months without cable news, the collective intelligence of everyone in base lodging will be significantly higher.