i need to watch things die from a good safe distance

[educate_sedate]

I was promised last night that I'd have a ride to the train station this morning so I wouldn't have to brave the massive rainstorm that's been pounding the eastern seaboard this week. When I discovered this morning that nobody was home and therefore I'd need to walk a mile in torrential freezing rain, I got pissed and in a moment of childish

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[narsjelenhentes]

I'm not even surprised these kinds of things keep happening, but it still greatly disturbs a part of me that anyone could harm another human in any way (other than self defense) but especially "faceless", random people.

I can't get any cloves around here. It sucks.

[mister_perky]

Also, as a columnist put it in the paper out here, something which in retrospect is pretty obvious; these 24 hour news networks, they've got all that time to fill with "news" (or more accurately "news-like coverage of current events"). Problem is that "newsworthy" stuff isn't constantly happening, so the punditoids et al at these places are pretty much tapping their feet most of the day waiting for "The news" to happen, and then they pounce on it and milk as much "coverage" [or just rabid speculation back and forth in the studio] from the event so as to fill up as much programming time as possible.

So they show the same clips over and over again. Say the same things over and over again. Cut to the same studio heads over and over again. Time must be filled so ratings can be delivered so that advertising time will be bought. In the meantime we the audience are bombarded with the same stuff. Over and over again.