Hey Buck, didn't you tell me once that this kind of crap is illegal? If it's not, it should be. People who know me have noticed I can't stand commercials because I lack that highly beneficial brain circuit that allows me to tune out while they're on. Instead I think about them, analyze them, and am slowly driven insane by their stupidity.

A Massachusetts company wants to beam commercial radio broadcasts into school buses every morning and afternoon, the latest mingling of education and commerce to spark outcry as the firm lobbies school districts across the state to sign contracts for the fall.

Needham-based Bus Radio said yesterday that it has signed up school systems with nearly 100,000 school children in Massachusetts and other states for the service next school year. The company says it is offering a cutting-edge service in which children select music online for their district's buses, drivers can finish their routes with their passengers quiet, and school districts get cash from the company. Bus Radio can sell advertising time to businesses trying to reach young consumers.
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"What these corporations want to do is be in children's faces 24 hours a day, and they're getting close to that," said Susan Linn, a psychologist at the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston.

Ack. That would drive me totally nuts. It reminds me of that story about Channel One, that supposedly "educational" TV segment with commercials some schools play before classes, that showed the kids remembered the ads, but not the news.