Miep Gies is dead at the age of 100 ( Read more... )

This is a media pandemic, above all else.

Also, apparently, I'm discouraged from "complaining" about the media's treatment of this at the dinner table, yet it's fine for my mother to rant and rave at length about the trees overhanging our garden. Double standards, much?

There are few words to describe quite how angry this story makes me.

( Lengthly, but for the first time in a while I have some first-hand experience. )

I know we're being manipulated by the media; I know we are. It's in their interests to tally up the bad news stories and thrust them into our faces so we keep buying, keep checking, keep worrying. It's how it's worked for years.

Despite that, I can't help but feel that the world's coming to a very slow end, sometimes. Just occasionally.

Still no internet, although not due to lack of trying. Nothing is happening in my life worth reporting, anyway ( Read more... )