And Now the News
I decided to pull up CNN.com this morning to see what was going on in the world. I wanted to find a topic that was worth writing about. I’ve slipped the last week on my two a day posts, partly because of my trip to Arizona and then because of a personal family issue that I could rant about for days, but it’s best I don’t. So it’s just before 8 am here in Anaheim and I figured I would get back into it by writing at least a short post. So I punched up CNN and started glancing over the headlines, this is what I had to choose from:
Powell – Arafat meeting on hold
Big Game jackpot soars to $300 million
U.S.: Chavez provoked Venezuela crisis
NOAA: U.S. to feel El Niño impact
Vijay leads Masters’ pack
Cardinal Law says he won’t resign
Ozzy Osbourne, superstar – again
Now I could go off on Colin Powell going to meet with Arafat, the Middle East is a topic full of things to rant about. Or I could talk about people spending their money on a long shot to win millions. I don’t know anything about the Venezuela crisis so I could educate myself on a new topic. As for the weather report this statement alone could get me going for a while “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issues monthly updates on El Niño forecasts. In March it confirmed that an El Niño was forming in the Pacific, but its extent and timetable were uncertain.” This tells me that there is an organization that sits around waiting for news on El Niño… didn’t we just start talking about this damn thing a couple years back?
Putting the issue of weather aside; I could go on about Vijay Singh and the Masters, but it’s only the second day results… I’ll care on Sunday. How about Cardinal Law? The man’s name alone could get me going “Cardinal Law” it sounds like a new series on CBS… ‘He’s a holy man and a holy terror: he protects the streets and religious beliefs. Watch Cardinal Law tonight on CBS.’ But after the name thing, the whole which ‘holier than thou’ asshole should step down is just redundant at this point.
So we get to the last story: Ozzy Osbourne. It’s the year 2002 and Ozzy is on the front page of CNN. This doesn’t strike me as far-fetched, but I was certain that it would be for an overdose, an announcement of some odd disease having to do with bat DNA, anything but him being a ‘super star’ again. Only Keith Richards has done more drugs then Ozzy and at least we can understand him (most of the time), but if you watch MTV’s The Osbournes what you see is what a dithering old fool Ozzy has become… and this has made him popular again?
So instead of picking a topic, the existence of these stories together as the headlines in itself just make me really wonder about the world and what we see as important. Maybe Ozzy was right… “We’re going of the rails on this crazy train”.
I decided to pull up CNN.com this morning to see what was going on in the world. I wanted to find a topic that was worth writing about. I’ve slipped the last week on my two a day posts, partly because of my trip to Arizona and then because of a personal family issue that I could rant about for days, but it’s best I don’t. So it’s just before 8 am here in Anaheim and I figured I would get back into it by writing at least a short post. So I punched up CNN and started glancing over the headlines, this is what I had to choose from:
Powell – Arafat meeting on hold
Big Game jackpot soars to $300 million
U.S.: Chavez provoked Venezuela crisis
NOAA: U.S. to feel El Niño impact
Vijay leads Masters’ pack
Cardinal Law says he won’t resign
Ozzy Osbourne, superstar – again
Now I could go off on Colin Powell going to meet with Arafat, the Middle East is a topic full of things to rant about. Or I could talk about people spending their money on a long shot to win millions. I don’t know anything about the Venezuela crisis so I could educate myself on a new topic. As for the weather report this statement alone could get me going for a while “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issues monthly updates on El Niño forecasts. In March it confirmed that an El Niño was forming in the Pacific, but its extent and timetable were uncertain.” This tells me that there is an organization that sits around waiting for news on El Niño… didn’t we just start talking about this damn thing a couple years back?
Putting the issue of weather aside; I could go on about Vijay Singh and the Masters, but it’s only the second day results… I’ll care on Sunday. How about Cardinal Law? The man’s name alone could get me going “Cardinal Law” it sounds like a new series on CBS… ‘He’s a holy man and a holy terror: he protects the streets and religious beliefs. Watch Cardinal Law tonight on CBS.’ But after the name thing, the whole which ‘holier than thou’ asshole should step down is just redundant at this point.
So we get to the last story: Ozzy Osbourne. It’s the year 2002 and Ozzy is on the front page of CNN. This doesn’t strike me as far-fetched, but I was certain that it would be for an overdose, an announcement of some odd disease having to do with bat DNA, anything but him being a ‘super star’ again. Only Keith Richards has done more drugs then Ozzy and at least we can understand him (most of the time), but if you watch MTV’s The Osbournes what you see is what a dithering old fool Ozzy has become… and this has made him popular again?
So instead of picking a topic, the existence of these stories together as the headlines in itself just make me really wonder about the world and what we see as important. Maybe Ozzy was right… “We’re going of the rails on this crazy train”.
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