I have two complaints today.
CNN isn’t changing to Egypt time.I swear two hours ago I heard Anderson Cooper say, “The mass protest is scheduled to begin at daybreak today, just two short hours.” A few hours later I tune in and hear him say the exact same thing, on replay, because CNN says “The mass protest is scheduled to begin at daybreak today. This is history in the – ops – time for bed. Here’s a re-run.” Do they think they can play history like the Olympics? “Shhh… just pretend it hasn’t happened until prime time.” I decided to get some live tv on the CNN web site, where they have the Nile TV Live feed. I swear I went there and … sigh … I am soooo American.
The ’11 Blizzard is Making Me Look Bad. Here’s another example of media hype. I stayed at home today because everyone assured me I would die if I got on the roads. Weather.com said the ice storm would begin in two hours! Hunker down. Two hours later. “Ice storm will begin in two hours!” I could have gone to work. If I wake up tomorrow and hear a weatherman say, “Whew, Saint Louis dodged a bullet” I will stalk him and pelt him with ice cubes.
4 responses to “This is the Winter of Our Discontent”
I know weather reporting can be a dicey thing. This is one situation where I trust the gummint – I check out http://www.noaa.gov for the forecast. If they forecast doom, I stay at home. If they’re wrong, though, they don’t pay me for a day’s lost pay.
My dad is very worried about who winds up in power in Egypt. I, on the other hand, figure that Israel is at full saturation for “screwed by neighbors who want to kill you all the time”, so if the Egyptian government suddenly doesn’t want peace any more, all it really means is that it will no longer be safe for Jews to check out how cool the pyramids are.
I mean really, you can’t be on alert more often than “every single second of every single day”.
As far as weather goes, it took me two hours to drive to work today, and I’m not even in the midwest. Winter is stupid.
Everything is going to happen in two hours.
Becs – Okay, noaa says I should go to work tomorrow. Off to bed. Tami – I don’t know, there is no war without Egypt. There’s on alert and there’s at war.Hattie – Well, true, Mubarak made a concession and Obama made a speech.