Friday, January 21, 2011

Week-In-the-News-Feed

Holy crappola! The week’s been full of flog-worthy subjects beginning with the "Wild West" of Los Angeles experiencing trigger-happy episodes in or on or near various metropolitan and suburban high schools, moving on to another round of bullets rat-a-tat-tatting in Miami on Thursday. Two more teens have committed suicide due to bullying, and the charming U.S. House of Reps pounded their death gavel rattle to repeal Healthcare despite an increasing soar in popular support for the bill Obama signed into law last year!

Someone over at Facebook decided this blog was offensive and blocked TDFB message-link from being published – even on my own Profile page! Next thing I knew, a gringe of some sort surreptitiously slipped into this blog, rewrote a draft of a post I had not completed, published it (warts and all) to my utter dismay the next morning when I awoke to find the slightly off-colour post front and center. The worse part of that mess was that I had more hits on that post than almost any other to date. Blushing much? Either the readers couldn’t believe how messy the post was and continued to come back for a second view, or else sex in any form really does sell – hah!

200 cows fell over – dead – in Wisconsin from what is suspected to be a virus. At least they weren’t falling from the sky; imagine what a mess that would have been with crushed roofs and cars. I know, not a pretty thought, but one must find some humour somewhere these days, even if it’s a tad black and not white. Ahem.

On the Hollywood scene, beyond the continuation of chatter over Ricky Gervais’ Golden Globes jabs, it was announced yesterday that the cad-of-cads, Jesse James, Sandra Bullock’s (thankfully) ex, has become engaged to his “best friend”, the head-to-toe-nail tattooed Kat Von D. In an interview with People, he said, “I have never met anyone so kind and loving and committed to making the world a better place every day. My love for her is beyond description. So honored that she said ‘yes.’ Growing old with her is going to be a f—–’ blast!”

Wow, Jesse! What a stand-up guy you aren’t to passive-aggressively diss your ex-wife in such a public way less than a year after she gushed you were “the best” in front of millions when she claimed her Academy Award, only to discover a few weeks later you had been spending time with another heavily tattooed femme while Sandra was away to make the film that brought her such acclaim. By the way, just who are you anyway, Jesse? Another "Reality Star" non-celeb taking up tabloid space?

On the tech side, everyone is all a-twitter over the news of long-time Google CEO Eric Schmidt stepping aside to part the gurgling waters to co-founder Larry Page while Schmidt wanders off to schmooze with lawmakers and "other" officials on behalf of Google. Hmmmm. Wonder what that means. Could it be that Google Earth wants to rule more turf? I say, so what? What's the big deal? Lotsa nervous peeps out there. Whatsamatter, does everyone fear a Bing takeover? If so, hahahahaha! There's not a lot of ping in Bing.

And then Mother Nature flipped-out on Pakistan with a 7.2 earthquake – ensuring that the human race not forget who’s in charge after cackling at Australia the previous week with floods, the America Southwest a few weeks earlier, and sending a not-so-Merry Xmas snow-laden blizzard to numerous locales over the world at the same time. Duck, everyone, I say duck! Mother Nature is on a revengeful kick.

Yep. There have been far worse weeks in the world. But, if this is the way 2011 is beginning, my head may start spinning faster than a cranked-up Roulette wheel on a hot night in Vegas.

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