A new class of talking heads
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an older goat. There; an aside for today, stripped from a commercial for some faceless charity. I liked, so I made it my own.
I’m watching the news. News all the time news, from CNN. The current talking head is coming in via Skype, mentioning remarks from Twitter, about something posted on the wall on Facebook. Yes, social media is everywhere. Probably for the better good; CNN isn’t likely to have a roving news crew in my neighbourhood any time soon. Examination of the incident in Tucson, without anything deeper than opinion and access to Google. Throw the journalism basics out; we live in a Brave New World.
I’m not easily shocked, but when I took a moment to search “Palin gunsight map”, I realized that the inmates are running the asylum. Go ahead. Try to picture the most powerful person in “the western world”. Then, superimpose this image…
Maybe it’s the only way to take down one of those ginormous Alaska moose, but surely you only need one shot. Anything more is just an invitation to chewing on pellet with your steak. I’m not going to add a link to her map for hunters (the now no longer on her website map).
Things aren’t much better up here, other than the obvious difficulty in getting your very own hamburger maker at Canadian Tire. Talking head Tom Flanagan had a very visceral reaction to Assange recently. It doesn’t take much academic research to find out what politician is in his circle of friends.
Speaking of hamburger, we purchased a George Foreman grill for a John A. at the local office surplus store (??). It actually cooks the meat, on both sides and in the middle! That no-stick surface is political!
