I know that politics are OT, but this is serious.

I read today, with no little dismay, that the Trump Budget proposes to 
eliminate all federal funding for the Corporation for Public 
Broadcasting over the next two years - NPR and PBS.

As a Canadian, I have always envied those of you who have had ready 
access to St Roy's show, the longest-running series in American 
television, for little money.

Here in Canada, he is only available by cable. I was an early 
cable-cutter (1997 or thereabouts), so I did without his guidance for 
many years. But then I learned his shows were available on DVD, and I 
persuaded the local public library to purchase the whole set. I have 
made my way through them over the past several years, and have begun to 
watch the more recent series on the PBS website, which seems to suffer 
from issues when it comes to delivering online content. Nonetheless, I 
persist. I would be greatly disappointed were his show to be 
discontinued for fundamentally political or any other reasons.  I 
believe that St Roy, were he in Japan, would be declared a National 
Treasure for the work he has done to acquire and share information about 
hand-tool technologies and methods. And it would be shameful were he to 
be cut off before his time. Those of you who have a pony in this race 
may want to consider what if anything to do about it. I'm just an outsider.

I apologize in advance for this divergence. I'll crawl back in my igloo 
now, and polish some ice.

Don

-- 
"You can tell a man that boozes by the company he chooses"
The Famous Pig Song, Clarke Van Ness

The harder they come, the bigger they fall." Ry Cooder