On the curative powers of Chinese food and stupidity of television

I've been sick for a few days, and had the relative IQ of a carton of cottage cheese. I can't say I'm completely well, but a few days of rest and Chinese food has vastly improved matters. I'm quite certain that hot and sour soup has curative properties. It's soothing if one has a sore throat and generally good in the same sorts of way that chicken soup is. So, I've improved from cottage cheese for brains to, oh, cheddar cheese for brains. All right, perhaps I'm further along than that.

While sick, I've been watching too much television, and even with cottage cheese brains, something struck me as rather stupid. Besides the commercials, that is, which are rather stupid at best. Court TV has become Tru TV, catch phrase "Not reality. Actuality." I cannot take a network called "Tru TV" seriously, which is bad, considering it's line up of true crime, dramatic stuff caught on tape, and Cops-esque shows. I rather think it wants to be taken seriously, it just also wants to sound cool and exciting. But...it sounds cute, not dramatic. Or, stupid, not dramatic, depending on one's point of view. I doubt it sounds dramatic to anyone. Then there's the catch phrase. Reality and actuality are synonyms, which means the catch phrase might as well be: "Not reality. Reality." Which, from the point of view of trying to be extra dramatic, might actually work better, if said properly. Still, it raises the question of whether or not anything shown on that channel is real, considering that even that catch phrase doesn't seem certain. Or perhaps this is all the cheese brains talking and it sounds perfectly reasonable to everyone else.