The news in America is a variety show, the only thing missing is the laugh track and applause. The kind of drivel that the networks pass off as news should be a crime, but since we have access to the BBC news, all is forgiven. Every night the networks interrupt our favorite show with endless snippets about how bad the weather is going to be or how they can scare us about something that affects one person in the audience.
Just tonight we were ‘exposed’ to a story about how certain bras made women sick and the impending law suit by the parasitical law firms. Leave it to American ingenuity to try to make something serious about the obfuscation of mammary glands.
JB -
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Alas, the American citizenry is constantly left gorging itself on:
CBS - Couric's Barely (Coherent) News
NBC - Nothing But (Constant) Commercials, aka NBC Nightly Snooze
FOX - Fearing Obama (Will Beat Them With A) Xylophone
ABC - Always Behind (The News) Curve
Seeking something better than just a corrosive candy of commercialism and that heartwarming story about a lost cat or found memento of an elderly widow, is what is the true nourishment we all need.
By the way, we all probably would never admit it, but silly news can be the froth to a cappuccino of a chaotic day. Simple stories of the evening half hour news, can be a relaxant sometimes.
- SHB
:)
(Flashing fragments of youthful elevation of gravity, is the dessert that makes a diamond sparkle in the moonlight)