There's nothing like the classics...

[onager]

2. With the History Channel brand, no less.

That's just sad.

These days when I go to The History Channel On-Demand listings looking for something to watch, there ain't no history. It's ALL this crap - aliens, lumberjacks, swap meet geeks and...pawn shops!

I did get a laugh out of the last one. Somewhere on the internet, a perceptive critic described Pawn Stars as: "Sort of like 'Antiques Roadshow' on PBS. Only with a bunch of loud, fat assholes."

The new H2 history channel (formerly History International) seems to be a little better, running some actual history stuff now and then.

But a lot of the real history has been dumped into the HisChan bargain basement - the Military Channel. That one doesn't even rate an HD channel, at least on my system. Strictly low-def, up there in the listings with QVC and the Christer channels.

MilChan has been running a great series called "Nazi Collaborators." It runs the gamut from the big names (Vidkun Quisling, Pierre Laval) to average people who collaborated with the Nazis for various reasons.

It's educational and thought-provoking, so I'm sure it will disappear real soon.