Stuck in the hospital waiting room while the morning ‘news’ is on the TV.

They’ve sent someone to Morocco for some disaster tourism with a side of suffering voyeurism. Dude, every molecule of fuel, food, and water you waste for your vapid reportage is one less that could be used to do something useful. Put down the camera and pick up a shovel.

Flooding in Libya got about a minute of the same shot of a river of orange mud running between buildings. Nobody on site, so it must still be somewhat hazardous. I expect to see breathless reporting from the scene as soon as the bars and resorts open back up.

In contrast, the flooding in Boston got precisely 34 seconds of “Hey, the streets flooded, here’s a shot of a fire truck. Now to the weather girl to vapor lock over a hurricane that may or may not hit that area later this week. Here’s a bowl of spaghetti we’re calling a proposed storm track.”

The North Korean leader is on an armored train to Moscow, because you can’t randomly shoot peasants from an airplane. He’s reported to be going to make an arms deal with Russia, which shows just how low the Rodina has fallen when it comes to ammunition quality and quantity. Everyone seems shocked that dictators might help each other dictate. “North Korea will pay a price”. Dude, if letting literally millions of his people starve to death isn’t a deterrent and you’re not willing to bomb his stone-age country back to the, well, stone-age, not sure what price you expect them to pay.

They’ve gotten a ‘cave explorer’ out of that hole he got stuck in.
While I’m glad he’s OK, one has to ask why we are robbing future archeologists and anthropologists of the opportunity to discover a mysterious mummy buried deep inside the earth.