Jeff Vrabel: My prehistoric TV is just fine, thank you

Alright, someone explain to me the TV Thing - specifically, the Giant TV Thing, the genetic impulse that's caught on during this luminous holiday season that's making everyone point their monster SUVs to the Giant Electro Store and obtain the largest, LCDest, most plasmalicious television they can afford, and by "afford," I mean, "pretty much not afford." (I'm seeing subprime mortgage people lurking outside Best Buy these days, clipboards in hand, wearing capes, I'm just saying.)