Journalism Frenzy

  Cast  I have quit watching TV except for old repeats of Are you Being Served which was made in England about the time I got married.  40 years ago.  This is new enough for me.  It just puzzles me that news stories that purport to be of great relevance disappear just as soon as something else interesting comes up on the horizon.  This is not something I learned in grade school.  Apparently continuity is a lost language today.   Let’s see, awhile back the Senate was divided into fighting factions and didn’t get anything done.  For a long time.  They still seemed to get their paychecks somehow.  Which is why I am not voting for any incumbents this time around.  Even a second-grader could do a better job than the respected Senators. Some of the new guys actually may be second-graders, intelligence doesn’t seem to be a requirement.  Then a renegade, terrorist, Major, psychologist in Texas shot up a bunch of soldiers and the senators went away.  An airplane crashed into an IRS building in Texas and the Major went away.  Then the oil well blew up and burned in the gulf and for weeks we were treated to subsurface pictures of oil gushing out of the broken valve.  The economy of the southern US was going to die, the fish and octopus population was going to glow in the dark and couldn’t be eaten.  And BP and a whole lot of others were making millions off the thing anyway.  Then the White House announced that things weren’t nearly as bad as they could have been, the well people pumped mud and recycled trash down the pipe and the well stopped running.  Now Al-Quaida has a new leader who lived in the US for some time and the well has virtually disappeared.   I have a song for all this and it may help you to understand why I spend time watching old reruns of Are You Being Served or not watching TV at all.  The link is somewhere in this blog.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpn_xu81ySo   Sex, love and rock and roll and somebody else can do the drugs and the booze.  But if it all doesn’t really matter, and disappears when something more interesting occurs, what’s wrong with that?  Ta!  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++