Today is an especially down day in the world of news. It all started this morning at my German Girlfriends house. She has cable. Which means CNN and FOX News (in English). CNN is nothing great, but it's not nothing, nor is it as entertaining, or addictive as FOX. Watching FOX News is like looking at a horribly disfigured, leg-less, wheel-chair bound, cross-eyed, stump-armed, burn victim. It makes you cringe, feel shame, get a sickly ache in your stomach, doesn't compute, and yet you can't look away; then you look away, but seconds later you sneak another look, seconds later you're changing the channel back to the torture chamber that is FOX news. So this was the start of my day. Listening to John Kerry clips over and over and over again. As if showing John Kerry saying something stupid is going to keep the republicans from losing the House, and maybe even the Senate. Not likely. Then they show clips of Bush trying to fumble out a criticism of Kerry's speach. As Bush lumbers forward, he is just able to articulate that: "words are important." Thanks buddy.
On FOX they just keep talking, but then you try to remember what they were saying, and you realize that they don't really say anything. They had some guy on to talk about the same old line, Democrats are weak on defence. Blah Blah Blah. I can't stop watching this stuff. And I totally disagree with all of it. I'm not sure if there are like subliminal pictures of paradise being broadcast beneath the facade of meaningless right-wing blather. The newscasters all seem like middle-aged kindergartners, whenever they try to articulate their own ideas, it comes out jumbled and sort-of dumb, almost as if they are all trying to emulate the President's speech. Then when they get something out without a hitch, they have that Bush smile, which says proudly: "that's right, I can talk."
Well that was all depressing, and then on, to news.google.com when I arrived home to the internet connection. OH MY GOD. It's almost as if the Economist and Business Week articles i've been reading the last two weeks have been filtering up. The economy is slowing. America is in trouble. I predict that the two articles in last weeks Economist and International Herald Tribune will come along as well, by tomorrow tops on google news the masses will be reading how London is the new financial capital of the world. The Federal Government has taken too many bites out of the Big Apple. Too many regulations. International business leaders have a difficult time even entering the United States through our handicapped TSA run airports. Who wants to fly in a country where you can't bring a damn bottle of wine on the plane anyway? Let alone invest in that country. Welcome to news.google.com, welcome to America. Bad news, more bad news, and politics, yucky politics. But some good stories to look into are the story about Diebold, the maker of the paper trail lacking, hackable voting machines which about a third of Americans will be using this year to vote in the mid-term elections. There is also a fantastic opinion letter by Karen Finley: http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20061102/cm_huffpost/033060
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