The Unusual Suspect

Actually, the header could also be: "The Very Usual Suspect." Coffee, cigarettes, History Channel, reading "The Newz" (I don't watch TV Newz anymore). I prefer to tweeze articles of interest from written source material. AP Wire, UPI, Reuters, Christian Science Monitor, Indie Press, etc..

Rupert Murdoch, much like W.R. Hearst in print before him, ripped the guts out of and ate the fuzzy puppies of TV Newz (and, The Wall Street Journal). Damn you, Australia, for letting this Yellow Journalist out of your sucked up former Penal Colony and turned loose. First, in the checkout line Tabloids (Think "Bat Boy versus The Woman With Three Tits" here) and then onto the World Stage. No singular worse thing has ever happened to the reporting of Objective News. The travesty soon spread to Other News Outlets. Americans, in particular, LOVE gossip and finger pointing. The English aren't far behind. If a Network didn't adopt the Rupert Principle ("If you don't know what actually happened, just make some shit up and/or do the bidding of the Conservative Right and Big Money") people just stopped reading/watching your newspaper or TV Channel. They want the really stinky asshole of news reporting. They want: Somebody To Blame. (Sounds like the antithesis of a Jefferson Airplane song, huh?) It's a brief synopsis of Western philosophy: "Fix The Blame, not The Problem."

Anyway...Fuck Rupert Murdoch. He looks dead already. He probably smells like a Nursing Home, too.

Little birds are waking up outside my cubicle. Also part of the "Usual Deal" for mornings. The little chirpings are something I enjoy. My worst paranoid delusion is that they're all talking about Sarah Palin and/or Bat Boy. The Aleutian Geese have all flown back up north. Probably not all the way to the Aleutians but, that's where they're ultimately headed. At altitude, THEY may be able to "See Russia" during that sojourn. There is a flock that stays around here, year 'round. They decided they liked it and just stayed, like many Tourists and San Francisco Ex-Pats.

I think I'll go see if I can find some "back-story" about the earthquakes in Nepal now.

Have a swell day! Unless you live in Tornado Alley and then the advice is: C.Y.A..

Ernie Lancaster, guitarist for Root Boy Slim:

Unfortunately, Ernie didn't "make it" through cancer and passed away on 07.17.2014. He was one of those true gems that shone brightly and burned hot.  http://www.ernielancaster.com/

A signature piece (2, in fact) with Root Boy Slim:

"Who Loves Ya', Baby?" -Telly Savalas

Rock on,
-Doc