The corporate media is in heaven today

They have a psychotic, rampaging killer story to analyze, and hundreds of locals to coax off their porches, so they can tell us all what they saw..where they were...what they felt.. were they "askeered"..

The psych-experts have all been taken off the shelves, and carefully dusted off..and are lined up in the wings to give their expert opinions about a nutcase they never treated or even knew about last Friday..

I think they all were getting a bit tired of covering the same old worldwide financial meltdown..

This is a story they can really get into.. It's got it all..guns, mayhem, crazy guy, innocent victims, car chase..

Contessa may have to have some smelling salts administered soon.. she's got a serious case of hyper-excitement over the whole ordeal..


Haven't checked CNN yet, but I'd bet they are "all over this" too..

He nailed today's M$M with his 1982 song.

I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something...something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry

Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here
I just have to look good, I dont have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry

We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
Its interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry

Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a
Running bet
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry

You don't really need to find out what's going on
You don't really want to know just how far it's gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry

Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody's pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry

We can do the innuendo
We can dance and sing
When it's said and done we havent told you a thing
We all know that crap is king
Give us dirty laundry!

Kick em when they're up
Kick em when they're down
Kick em when they're up
Kick em when they're down

Kick em when they're up
Kick em when they're down
Kick em when they're stiff
Kick em all around

The IL church shooter.

The Alabama small town shooter.

The high school student in Germany.

And not exactly a rampage, but another muder/suicide in Memphis.

It's getting hard to keep up with.

I went to town today, and overheard two women talking about a 53 year-old guy they went to school with, and how he'd 'somehow missed the curve, and went straight down the hill'. What a shame, he had two small children (shaking their heads mournfully).

So, I get to my mom's house, and ask her about this guy, relating what I'd heard at the store. She started halfway chuckling, and began the story of what really happened.

Seems this guy lived next-door to my brother's in-laws. He'd lost his job several days before, and the whole neighborhood watched as he aimlessly drove ten or more times up and down the street. Then he drove up, and never came back.

Seems he'd been working up the courage to do a high speed 'Thelma & Louise' off the bluff at the end of the road, landing 150ft down on the RR tracks. The final insult being hit by a train. But I'm pretty sure after the fall off the 'hill' he didn't feel it anyway.

Now if his story had gotten some 24/7 on teevee, maybe the BLUFF wouldn't have become a HILL, and ON PURPOSE wouldn't have turned into SOMEHOW, and...oh god I'm going to be called a heartless heathen.:hide: