politics and media.
gas prices are very, very high. i speak not of driving but of the gas bill.
i cannot listen to the news without feeling like someone is trying to exploit me emotionally for money. there should be a way to stay informed about the world around me without being omnipotent or feeling like i'm involved in a massive shameful all-way emotional exploitation.
i am wondering if anyone has actually said anything about trying to overturn roe v. wade, or if everyone is paranoid along the same lines. i've been getting massive amounts of email warning me that the supreme court is about to overturn roe v wade if i don't give certain organizations money to send out massive amounts of junk mail. and npr seems to think that a 30-year retrospective on abortion law is appropriate and necessary.
this mining thing is a mess, now isn't it. why the fuck does anyone think coal mining officials would tell a bald-faced lie when they're just going to have to tell the truth when 12 people don't come out of the ground? everyone is emotional, i know, but damn. how many times have you mishead something over the telephone? also, i don't care who they were. that's just a ploy to make me sad enough to give npr some money. anyways, it's sad enough that it happened. it doesn't need extra personalization. you can hear the extra dollar signs going ka-ching! every time they say daughter, mother, child, son, wife, or engaged. the poetic part afterwards about mining and why people mine and what it's about and how we benefit from their work isn't too bad. then when i want to know about current mining safety standards, they tell me to look it up. fuck that! that's why i'm listening to the radio. i want more news and less bullshit, more fact and less emotional sappy bullshit full of buzzwords and devoid of useful or interesting information.
why can't people do anything without making a fucking travesty out of it?
also, ariel sharon had a massive stroke. a couple weeks ago he had a minor one and doctors said he was in no particular statistical danger of another. makes you think doctors lie for political reasons. but we already got a little glimmer of that from jfk... and reagan... and just a couple other people, now didn't we.
the miners are settled. why are they continuing coverage? i want to hear "experts" talk about the israeli political situation since sharon's in the hospital. that's what the news is. that's where the uncertainty is. that's where i want more information. i'm just being bombarded by repetitive bullshit about miners who, rest in peace, are already dead. since when did hoi polloi steal the limelight from political figureheads such that they sap airtime from an actual event of international concern and international stakes? i know about the common man. i know about bullshit evangelical churches who believe in "being led by the holy spirit" and don't have an order of worship.
perhaps it's the news media fellating itself in disbelief that a "reported fact" was not true. but that is a fact of existence, and could be found in the sharon story, or in any story. they're reviewing their bibliography and trying to figure out what went wrong. there was a piece of misinformation, you dipshits. and it was probably caused by miscommunication, not by manipulation of fact, since that doesn't make very much sense. the real juicy stuff is hearing about people lying baldfacedly. like doctors. and political aides. that is where we are humbled, corrected, and wrongdoing is unveiled. there is always an element of bad luck and nature kicking our asses, but in the second story, there is also a huge potential that people acted with an intent to deceive and manipulate information.
perhaps people prefer to be awed by the flaws in technology, by nature taking things out on us, by things that aren't our fault and don't indict us or remind us of our own wrongdoing. we just want to be extremely saddened, paralyzed with personal mourning for people we didn't know personally, instead of exploring the large-scale lies that we tell every day so that the powers that be stay being.
i cannot listen to the news without feeling like someone is trying to exploit me emotionally for money. there should be a way to stay informed about the world around me without being omnipotent or feeling like i'm involved in a massive shameful all-way emotional exploitation.
i am wondering if anyone has actually said anything about trying to overturn roe v. wade, or if everyone is paranoid along the same lines. i've been getting massive amounts of email warning me that the supreme court is about to overturn roe v wade if i don't give certain organizations money to send out massive amounts of junk mail. and npr seems to think that a 30-year retrospective on abortion law is appropriate and necessary.
this mining thing is a mess, now isn't it. why the fuck does anyone think coal mining officials would tell a bald-faced lie when they're just going to have to tell the truth when 12 people don't come out of the ground? everyone is emotional, i know, but damn. how many times have you mishead something over the telephone? also, i don't care who they were. that's just a ploy to make me sad enough to give npr some money. anyways, it's sad enough that it happened. it doesn't need extra personalization. you can hear the extra dollar signs going ka-ching! every time they say daughter, mother, child, son, wife, or engaged. the poetic part afterwards about mining and why people mine and what it's about and how we benefit from their work isn't too bad. then when i want to know about current mining safety standards, they tell me to look it up. fuck that! that's why i'm listening to the radio. i want more news and less bullshit, more fact and less emotional sappy bullshit full of buzzwords and devoid of useful or interesting information.
why can't people do anything without making a fucking travesty out of it?
also, ariel sharon had a massive stroke. a couple weeks ago he had a minor one and doctors said he was in no particular statistical danger of another. makes you think doctors lie for political reasons. but we already got a little glimmer of that from jfk... and reagan... and just a couple other people, now didn't we.
the miners are settled. why are they continuing coverage? i want to hear "experts" talk about the israeli political situation since sharon's in the hospital. that's what the news is. that's where the uncertainty is. that's where i want more information. i'm just being bombarded by repetitive bullshit about miners who, rest in peace, are already dead. since when did hoi polloi steal the limelight from political figureheads such that they sap airtime from an actual event of international concern and international stakes? i know about the common man. i know about bullshit evangelical churches who believe in "being led by the holy spirit" and don't have an order of worship.
perhaps it's the news media fellating itself in disbelief that a "reported fact" was not true. but that is a fact of existence, and could be found in the sharon story, or in any story. they're reviewing their bibliography and trying to figure out what went wrong. there was a piece of misinformation, you dipshits. and it was probably caused by miscommunication, not by manipulation of fact, since that doesn't make very much sense. the real juicy stuff is hearing about people lying baldfacedly. like doctors. and political aides. that is where we are humbled, corrected, and wrongdoing is unveiled. there is always an element of bad luck and nature kicking our asses, but in the second story, there is also a huge potential that people acted with an intent to deceive and manipulate information.
perhaps people prefer to be awed by the flaws in technology, by nature taking things out on us, by things that aren't our fault and don't indict us or remind us of our own wrongdoing. we just want to be extremely saddened, paralyzed with personal mourning for people we didn't know personally, instead of exploring the large-scale lies that we tell every day so that the powers that be stay being.