A Little Local News
I don’t “do” a lot of news. I think it’s because last election cycle I completely overdid it. A year ago I was media engorged — a fat, bloated, quivering sack of election coverage — and then almost literally as soon as I saw the announcement that Obama had been elected, I was over it. Since then it’s been a bit like that revulsion you experience after, for the sake of example, a bad whiskey night, when for weeks or even months afterward, the smell of whiskey stirs up horrible memories of that night you spent face-down, crying in the shower til 9AM. People start discussing current events and I’m just irritated. I just really have no desire to keep up right now. I pick up bit and pieces of news from things like The Daily Show and, more recently, The Phil Hendrie Show, but it’s really in one ear and out the other. I know, I know, I’m heading back towards the apathy of my younger years, but goddammit I need a break. Forming an opinion and getting emotionally involved in every single story that comes off the wire is psychologically taxing.
So yeah, all of that was really a buildup to “I don’t even know what’s going on locally and apparently the other day a woman tried to steal another woman’s baby while she was still pregnant with it.” Sometimes the only opinion you can have on a piece of news is “…what?” Oh, and get a load of that mugshot. This happened right out by where I work.
3 Responses to “A Little Local News”
Typical fucking democrat. Nader!
I don’t really identify as a Democrat, bee tee doubleyoo.
She stole the idea from the movie “Inside.”
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