On Thursday, Zimbabwe's state election commission admitted that nearly 305,000 people were turned away from voting and another 207,000 were "assisted voters" –" supposedly illiterate or infirm" – who needed help from polling officials to cast ballots.
That means it's either deliberately pumped into the homes of infirm people who have lost their remotes – unlikely, because they're a notoriously unappealing demographic for advertisers – or people are ashamed of watching it.
Then an infirm Kirk Gibson hit a pinch-hit, walk-off home run against lock-down closer Dennis Eckersley in Game 1, and Tommy Lasorda's underdogs took the series in five games.
Why do we treat our elderly and our infirm like animals?
"Bishops and priests, religious women and men, the elderly and even defenceless children and the infirm were murdered," the pope said.
"Shelley is my only biological child, but she and Cass and Maya always look out for each other and if I become infirm and need care, she's not going to be on her own thinking, 'I'm the only child.'" Plus, age has softened her: having been scornful of the word mum, she is very happy to be known as grandma.
But one thing stands out about the places the old and infirm are cared for in Japan.
In 2010 the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare reckoned Japanese nursing homes and hospitals needed 2m professional carers to look after the country's 30m elderly and infirm, but managed to attract only 1.3m.
One is a small, battery-powered trolley that helps the infirm to walk by themselves.
With Judge Carney's ruling, the state's system of capital punishment has been judged doubly infirm.
Registrars helped the illiterate and infirm sign in the box marked F for Fatah.
