I call it the Media Teat.
As much as I hate to admit it, the adage that one is able to handle their parents much better after they leave the home to live on their own has come true for me. Now that I’ve got my own place, my visits to see them have become largely amusing excursions centered around food and offers of further food supplies, where I have now become in their eyes “a sparkling dinner conversationalist” with an interesting choice of cocktails.
However, there are still moments from time to time that make me relish the fact that I’m now in my own place, away from them. Example being this revelation yesterday by my father. He believes that the Vancouver Hockey Riots were actually perpetrated by a “Secret Canadian Leftist-Anarchist Cell” (the same one that protested last year’s G8 summit), because “Canadians aren’t capable of rioting.”
I’m trying to figure out where he picked up THIS nugget. I have the sneaking suspicion he got it from Fox News, but I have to do more research. He stays attached to that goddamned channel like a squirming newborn marsupial on its mother’s nipple. It gives me pause to think what ELSE that rat’s nest of political sputum is going to convince him to believe when he retires this September and has nothing to do but watch it ALL DAY LONG.
However, there are still moments from time to time that make me relish the fact that I’m now in my own place, away from them. Example being this revelation yesterday by my father. He believes that the Vancouver Hockey Riots were actually perpetrated by a “Secret Canadian Leftist-Anarchist Cell” (the same one that protested last year’s G8 summit), because “Canadians aren’t capable of rioting.”
I’m trying to figure out where he picked up THIS nugget. I have the sneaking suspicion he got it from Fox News, but I have to do more research. He stays attached to that goddamned channel like a squirming newborn marsupial on its mother’s nipple. It gives me pause to think what ELSE that rat’s nest of political sputum is going to convince him to believe when he retires this September and has nothing to do but watch it ALL DAY LONG.