Lunch Break- Why does CNN hate America? and Macbeth

Point made earlier on this blog worth repetition: The media has now spent more time examining Sarah Palin's daughter in one weekend that is has on William Ayres, long time associate of Barrack Obama and unrepentant terrorist - in 10 months.

Why does CNN hate America?

As for today's clip, I fall to Will Shakespeare. Will S. knew everything that had ever happened or ever would happen - it's his world - we just alight in it - so where does 2008 land on the Shakespeare map?

For now, I am going with Macbeth - The angry driven wife, the narcissistic, parasitic husband with an undeserved sense of entitlement, the "witches" behind the scenes brewing chaos, - and the over all oddness of this year... all add up to Macbeth so far.

Here's a nice clip from an interesting version -of the moment Macbeth finds out is wife, Lady Macbeth, is dead. He comes to terms with the sudden, essential emptiness of their climb to power. As is often the case with Shakespeare, we all KNOW this speech with out knowing we know it - because he made it part of the atmosphere we breath...