The National Enquirization of American media plows full speed ahead . . .

Well -- I guess this was the "big news" today -- or at least it appeared to be so since every cable news channel I flipped to seemed to be covering the amazing saga of "balloon boy."

The American news media behemoth gets punked by a 6 year old kid. How utterly goddamn embarrassing. And yet I will still have people ask me why I refuse to get my daily news from my idiot box.

It's because this is the kind of stuff that appears to be what constitutes "news" in this country these days:
























Our culture is so fucked. Thanks Rupert you greedy prick.


----k