Junk News
This morning the top of the news on NPR was Karl Rove’s resignation, the Utah mine collapse, and the gouge on the Space Shuttle. By what stretch of the imagination is any of this news? Rove was quoted as predicting that Bush would end up with more favorable ratings, but that’s like speculating that Tampa Bay might end the season at .400. Isn’t the important observation that George W. Bush will forever be a player in debates regarding whose was the worst presidency ever? Rove’s remarks were given to the Wall Street Journal. Had he answered some questions to NPR, maybe by some slim chance someone would have been puckish enough to ask him what his odds are of serving hard time.
Meanwhile, it is not news that miners are stuck in a hole. Mine safety should be news, as well as economic conditions that drive people to unsafe work. And the Shuttle? Guess what, those astronauts signed up for hazard duty. It is sad that they can no longer get drunk before blast off. I can’t help but wonder if there is some occult causality between the denial of pre-launch boozing and the gouging of the tiles. May we please have a reusable space plane soon, like yesterday? Or, ahem, scrap the whole thing and pay for more earthbound pursuits?
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