Today while I was at the gym, the only thing on the 5 or so tv's in front of my stair stepper machine was news. Lots and lots of news. Usually I would be extraordinarily bored by it, but I thought, "Oh ok I'll just get my topic for my blog tonight." (Actually that was a lie. This is what I should have thought. But I payed attention even if I didn't think it could be research for my blog.) Unfortunately I guess today was a pretty light news day. Here's the few stories that were played over and over, with commentary:
1. Some politician wrote a book. I tended to switch the channel for my earphones whenever this news bit came on, so I don't remember much about it, but something about it was newsworthy. I think something do to with something he wrote about some other politician. I'm interested.
2. Gas prices are rising!!! Oh wait, we already knew that. Hitting $4 a gallon, the prices are causing some to modify their behavior. However, the only behavior modification that people interviewed at the pumps were doing appeared to be filling their tanks up 3/4 full ($75) as opposed to all the way ($100). Sounds like cheating a bit to me. Maybe a better option would be not driving as much?
3. The polygamist kids are all going back to their parents. Apparently there was no reason to take prepubescent kids as they weren't at risk to be child brides, etc. The state was claiming that they couldn't possibly return the kids to their parents because they don't know which ones go to which parents, but the parents say that's ridiculous because the state was allowing visitation between specific parents and children. The pundits want you to know that this isn't necessarily the end of it because Texas has 10 days to sort everything out.
4. Hillary Clinton just might possibly be hurting the Democratic Party by remaining in the race this far, when it is pretty much mathematically impossible for her to get the nomination. One pundit did come up with a way in which she might be able to claim that actually she might still make it, but I don't even remember it because it involved a lot of if's. And I mean a lot.
5. The DC policemen shot another dog. Seriously, guys, stop it.
And that's the news for today folks. I guess every day can't be newsworthy, though the stations still have space to fill. I wonder what happens on slow news days in the stations. "Alright, guys, now, talk really slow and make a lot of useless comments!" Maybe I should give them a break. But where's the fun in passively accepting the news? Isn't this what blogs are all about?
4 comments:
Well. I did read something about Clinton turning her attention against McCain instead of constantly bashing Obama. But I wish she'd just give it up and back Obama, I don't know why she doesn't realize that's the best option.
As far as gas, it cost me $65 to fill my tank yesterday. $4.194 a gallon??? This is going to cost me $15 more per fill-up than I was paying three months ago. And I'm a teenager, I can't afford that! :(
The gas prices are crazy!! it's constantly rising, paying $4 per gallon is high enough but I heard it will keep rising like $6 or $7 per gallon.
Many will stop driving and start riding their bikes. Car pooling is a good idea in a tough situation like this.
brother. Hilary Clinton is so dumb. I hate how she is running such a dirty campaign. That means her own campaign isnt strong enough. I get why she wont back out now, but I kinda wish she would. She better not be the nominee. Do you know how many Democrats would not vote democratic if she were the nominee? Its rediculous. We need a candidate that will win the election. We cannot stand to have some old geezer who is just gonna continue Bush's lame policies and idiotic war be president. This is why us Democrats need a uniting figure like Obama. Alas, if Obama isnt president, I'll be in Canada. Too bad for the rest of you tho.
So about the gas prices. I was in Canada this weekend and yes, to us, $4 a gallon is quite ridiculous. But in the whole scheme of things, it could be worse. Most countries have always paid more than us for gas, and in Canada, it's already up to about $6 a gallon. So I suppose that we should be thankful that we haven't reached that yet.
Either way, I don't think it's ever going to reduce the amount that people drive. Unless of course our public transportation around here was better, but that's a whole different issue...
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