the Right (wing) Rev. Pat Robertson has called for the murder of a head of state. If there is a place that is beyond, beyond the pale he has now gone there. Makes no bones about it, Pat Robertson is an amoral, unAmerican, anti-Jesus, addled brained, neo-fascist, depraved, dangerous, evil-minded, dunderheaded Crackpot.
You can let him know what YOU think of him here:
http://www.cbn.com/contact/feedback.asp
Another in my ongoing photos of this city around this city and the people in it: it is quite a place - but please do not come to Los Angeles - there are too many of us as it is. I love this picture for so many reasons, the dude, the sign, the super big gulp.
I am not blogging in full force for a number of mostly bogus reasons however: words worth googling this week: Powerdown,
Sheehan, gharwar
Those give a good idea of my thinking. Heart in Crawford. Brain on oil - or what may well be the end of it. Powerdown, The Long Emergency, and Out of Gas - all books worth reading esp. If you like freaking out just before bed.
So I still await the return of my computer guy-
who is doing sue nom eee relief in South Asia -
to fix up this site once and for all so in the mean time I continue to post images from around my lovely city. Here's one bad snap on a throw away camera outside the Universal City Metro Stop (yes LA has a subway...a rather nice one too). I guess you could say this is a BLUE city.
I was neither a huge fan or a detractor of Peter Jennings - but I will miss him for a simple reason: I don't know that I trust any other journalist on the scene to deliver the news with no baggage. CNN is embarrassing. Fox is a nonstarter. MSNBC is forever chasing some imaginary demographic. CBS is spooked. And NBC leaves me informed but never MORE informed than I would be if I had just thumbed through the LA times, usually less.
There was a time in this country when news reporting on television seemed to hold to a simple rule: tell them what happened.
That's it. No more, no less. I suppose that ratings mattered to Cronkite and Huntley and the rest. But they never over road that simple rule:
Tell them what happened today.
Jennings did just that. He told us what happened, when it happened, where it happened, and who it happened to.
WHENEVER I see news on TV now I just ASSUME I must go elsewhere to complete the story. Basic parts of all stories are left out on all the cable networks.The point of the cable news outlets is to entertain and/or create a state of agitation. AND TO FORCE US TO PRETEND TO CARE ABOUT WHAT THEY THINK WE SHOULD CARE ABOUT. And frankly, CBS and NBC news are fine, but pointless.
Jennings reported and had the courtesy and good sense to let us decide. I like some news anchors and I like some "news" shows. But I don't kid myself. They don't care if I am better informed - they only care that I am watching.
Jennings will be missed.
Blog Alert Pic of the day: Venice Men
Waiting a few weeks to get this site all up and running so I am posting pics of my fair city to fill the time.
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