Tuesday, July 05, 2011

CHANGE THE CHANNEL?

Waking from a fitful sleep, I popped on MSNBC to catch up with the momentous events shaping our destiny, and there was a trial judge giving jury instructions in a bizarre Florida murder case involving possible infanticide, child abuse, deceit, monumental family dysfunction; about every conceivable domestic depravity known to mankind. Hmmmm..something amiss, I muttered and switched to CNN to find the same trial judge; HLN, ditto. For the first time in forever I tried FOX News and there was Judge Everywhere. This can't be happening I stammered; maybe I'm still experiencing nightmare, or Cable TV has been hijacked by the Bizarro Continuum. Flipping on my favorite all news radio station, the first words at the top of the hour were: "Jury deliberations have begun in the murder trial of...."

A hundred years from now, historians of 2111, discussing the collapse of the American Experiment in the second decade of the 21st century, can sum up the failure of an uninformed electorate to prevent America's downfall at the hands of the war party, the banksters, the insatiably greedy oligarchs and the anti intellectual religious fanatics in two words: CASEY ANTHONY.

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