Thought of the Day 04.16.09

“Have you heard about John’s affair with his intern? Yeah, his wife is going to get everything in the divorce. Of course you heard that Steve is going to jail for two years because the IRS caught him cheating on his taxes, right?.

“Speaking of which, isn’t it outrageous how this President is wasting so much of our money at a time like this when the economy is tanking so badly? I don’t think things are going to get any better for a very long time to come. But it’s no wonder with all those illegal immigrants coming over here to sponge off our social services and take our jobs.

“As if we didn’t already have enough problems with flu season and all the drugs in our schools. And to top it all off, I got stuck in traffic for twenty minutes today because of some rollover accident on the Eastbound I-10 at the 101 and I had to listen to how the D-Backs lost and how miserably hot it’s going to be next week. Man life is rotten.”


Hopefully you would never choose to spend much time with a person this persistently negative. But then the question is, “Why do you watch the news and read the newspaper regularly?”

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

this is EXACTLY why I don't regularly watch the news. The paper seems a bit better - and you can scan and choose which articles to focus on (i mean on which to focus :) mr. grammar Andrew.) -Steve in Gilbert

Anonymous said...

Sometimes I think we watch TV because it's there. As humans, we want entertainment and we want easy. The click of a button is easy and the sensational and the negative (interestingly) is very titillating. Were we to think more (not easy or immediately as entertaining) we would realize the danger of the inanity and pessimism in news and on TV. The temptation of the easy, I would argue, is the achilles' heel of the human psyche. (See thought of the day 4.14.09) --BA