Comments | tompurdue: Something I actually hate less over time

tompurdue

Something I actually hate less over time

Oct 04, 2011 14:30

Not watching the news gives me a very odd perspective on the news. The more news I watch, the more things I hate. And I'm not just talking about "dislike" passing as "hate" here. I mean the number of things that I would destroy by force if I could get away with it.

Still, I eventually hear about things anyway. Hell, despite avoiding the news, I ( Read more... )

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thirdbase October 4 2011, 19:06:10 UTC

Hi, I'm with MORONS WHO BAKE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES FOR A BETTER SMELLING AMERICA IN THE AFTERNOON WITH A GLASS OF COLD MILK. Our platform is that we hate the namby-pamby people with lactose intolerance because we believe all chocolate chip cookies should always be enjoyed with a glass of milk and tomorrow we are dressing up as chocolate chip cookie zombies and marching on that soy dairy farm in Jersey for their mis-treatment of cows that give soy milk.

tompurdue October 4 2011, 19:08:52 UTC

Ya know, I could really get behind that. This country needs much less arguing and way more cookies.

thirdbase October 4 2011, 23:22:55 UTC

Baking you don't get arrested for...

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badmagic October 4 2011, 20:18:54 UTC

Those protests are nationwide. That you've only heard of the ones in NYC suggests that the mainstream media isn't covering them.

vvalkyri October 4 2011, 20:52:46 UTC

That, and they'd been going on for a week or two before they started getting attention by the police pepperspraying some gal, caught on video. I listen to a fair amount of news (for an average person) and I'd heard nothing of it until someone told me about it, back on 25 September. I think the first I /heard/ a story about it (as opposed to saw a blogpost) was during Diane Rehm Friday News Roundup this past Friday, when the discussion was "what's this about getting no attention? Well, there are protests everywhere all the time - it's hard to choose what to cover, unless someone gets pepper sprayed and it goes viral."

I thought the large number of arrests on the brooklyn bridge after the protesters thought they'd been told they had the okay to march was pretty rich, though.

vvalkyri October 4 2011, 21:24:25 UTC

Elsejournal, an interesting discussion. I hadn't known about the later effects from the antiglobalization protests in the late 90s.

http://nancylebov.livejournal.com/506436.html?nc=16

(that was tangented off the original Occupy Wall Street post.)

tompurdue October 5 2011, 15:31:48 UTC

Very good point. I may have to crawl out of my self-protected curling-into-a-ball and watch enough news to hear about it.

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