jump to navigation

Pre-Emptive Confession March 25, 2008

Posted by eviljwinter in WTF, Why Is This News?.
4 comments

Along the same lines as Gov. David Paterson admitting to pretty much everything virtually every politician under the age of sixty cannot deny without getting laughed at, I am going to confess a few things here.

  • I have used bad words.
  • I have had pre-marital sex.
  • I have had post-marital sex.
  • I have not smoked marijuana.  Yet.
  • I have taken office supplies from various employers, including BigHugeCo.
  • I have surfed the web on company time.
  • I have sat in the breakroom at CompUSA when I was supposed to be working and watched the Cartoon Network.  (Wait a minute.  That’s bragging.  Just add this one to the CompUSSR post from a couple months ago.)
  • I once gave Revenge of the Sith a glowing review.  (That’s one of those times I probably should have lied about the marijuana.)
  • I ate paste in the second grade.

And those are my deep dark secrets.  Not all my secrets.  I have more.  But the remaining ones are either deep or dark, but not both.  Some are neither deep nor dark.  And all of them are none of your business.

And some of those you’ll thank me for keeping secret.

What CNN Thinks You Need To Talk To Kids About December 20, 2007

Posted by eviljwinter in Why Is This News?.
Tags: , ,
2 comments

There are many things in the news we should discuss with our children.  Who are next president will be.  Why gas is so expensive.  Why many people are losing their homes.  How to keep from getting sick by washing hands regularly.

Glaringly absent from that list, according to CNN, is what to tell them about Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy.

Here’s a big clue for whatever genius at CNN thought that should be the top story on their web site:  I never heard of her until she got pregnant, and some celebrity-worshipping lemming who lucked into a news editor’s gig decided this was bigger news than…  I dunno…  how about Elvis not being dead?   (Slightly less implausible than the moon hoax theory, given that Syd Barrett died the most photographed recluse in rock history.)

And what do kids think about this?

Well, here’s what happened when one guy told his 8-year-old.

I’ve met this kid.  She’s really smart.

Smarter than whoever’s managing CNN’s web site.