Wayward the Whale and other stories...
First off, just a kind thought and a word of hope for family of the miners trapped in West Virginia. My thoughts go out to you all...
Okay. Down to business.
Over on FoxNews.com and CNN.com the leading story isn't Pakistan's President Musharraf telling a U.S. official that we've used up our Violate Pakistan's Sovereignty Free card, and that we're not allowed to do it again (although he assured another U.S. government official that his country still pledges unwavering support for our wars on terrorism (read: our wars on other nations that really, really, annoy us beacause they're not us and since they're weaker than us can't stop us anyway and if Pakistan doesn't pledge support they're next...).
It isn't that 200 hundred people were arrested in pro-Democracy protests in Nepal (it's a wonder that we haven't yet invaded Nepal to spread the jelly of democracy over the dry bread of this small southasian country. I said yet, right?). It isn't even that the President of another nation passed away today (Kosovo's President Rugova died today at 61 years of age). The leading story on both sites today is...
A whale.
A wayward whale. (CNN.com's choice of headline, sadly enough, not mine. I however will name the whale Wayward. So there.)
Yes, this sad behemoth of the sea stole the front page from mad cows, trapped miners, and dead presidents. Sure, I think its sad that the whale is lost and injured, and even sadder that in some way its probably our fault that it got lost in the first place. Doctors in England have run blood tests on Wayward to determine whether the northern bottlenose whale should be euthanized or released into the artic waters.
The homeless guy living beneath the Hamilton bridge in the Bronx should be so lucky.
Okay. Down to business.
Over on FoxNews.com and CNN.com the leading story isn't Pakistan's President Musharraf telling a U.S. official that we've used up our Violate Pakistan's Sovereignty Free card, and that we're not allowed to do it again (although he assured another U.S. government official that his country still pledges unwavering support for our wars on terrorism (read: our wars on other nations that really, really, annoy us beacause they're not us and since they're weaker than us can't stop us anyway and if Pakistan doesn't pledge support they're next...).
It isn't that 200 hundred people were arrested in pro-Democracy protests in Nepal (it's a wonder that we haven't yet invaded Nepal to spread the jelly of democracy over the dry bread of this small southasian country. I said yet, right?). It isn't even that the President of another nation passed away today (Kosovo's President Rugova died today at 61 years of age). The leading story on both sites today is...
A whale.
A wayward whale. (CNN.com's choice of headline, sadly enough, not mine. I however will name the whale Wayward. So there.)
Yes, this sad behemoth of the sea stole the front page from mad cows, trapped miners, and dead presidents. Sure, I think its sad that the whale is lost and injured, and even sadder that in some way its probably our fault that it got lost in the first place. Doctors in England have run blood tests on Wayward to determine whether the northern bottlenose whale should be euthanized or released into the artic waters.
The homeless guy living beneath the Hamilton bridge in the Bronx should be so lucky.
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10:36 AM
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