Another day, another day where I didn’t find a writing prompt.
I actually listened to an interview Jersey Dave Smith did with Liz Wolfe from Reason about her reaction to the RFK Jr. interview.
Liz is young. Dave, albeit 40, is young.
There’s a whole group of people in the NeoHippie movement for whom the epoch was 9/11/2001.
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Why don’t they talk about the USS Cole?
So, dug back into my archives from that time, and noticed the I hadn’t written much about it.
The nearest thing I had was from February 17, 2001.
5:05 newscast. A woman who was the financee of one of the sailors killed on the USS Cole gave birth to a baby on Friday. That is local news. They were both from Norfolk. Not a minute after I got off the air, this lady calls me and bitches me out about “glorifying” having a child out of wedlock. Hey lady, FUCK YOU! How many people your age had those six month pregnancies, hmm? Don’t you have anything better to do than mess with me while I’m working. If you disagree with our news policy, there are two knobs on your radio. One will turn the station, the other will turn us off. It works either way.
So. Some swabbieyoung guy gets his girlfriend pregnant, then dies at work, and you’re going to criticize? Though Norfolk was pretty good at impromptu weddings (I can attest to this from personal experience….there wasn’t a lot to it when my wife and I decided to get married…), it didn’t always happen.
There seems to be a group of people who want to place all the blame for everything on the US; everything bad that’s happened since about 1946 was because of the US. Yeah, we’ve done some bad things. But we’re not the cause of everything bad that’s happened. And it’s not all because defense companies are trying to get rich.
So. What else is up?
Work seems to be moving in a positive direction, although I did get a lot more work thrown on my plate. It’s not totally unexpected. It’s incredibly tedious. I knew it would come, but I wish I had a little help with it. I’d warned it was coming, was told I was crazy, and so on…but here it is. So I’ll do what I can.
Looking around at the news, related to the last paragraph, look at the appropriations bills. Um.
I should dig into Football stuff. Does anyone have a good recommendation on NFL preview magazines?