Colorado blizzards, Fargo floods, Alaskan volcanoes, North Korean missiles, and 'imminent' terrorist attacks.
What the heck, is it Armageddon already?
Well, you'd think so from the overwrought reportage on the cable news channels, particularly FOX (of course) this Friday am. If you tuned in to any of this stuff, or better yet, browsed it via 'Direct TV News Mix', you would be forgiven for shoving your head in the nearest hole in best ostrich mode.
With the stock market climbing upwards over a thousand points in the last week (even given today's backpedalling), and with President Obama and crew making (mostly) the right moves, I guess the US press is suffering from good news overload and just can't bear it. Hence the glee with which they deliver the bad stuff.
Witness their apparent desperation to find the cloud cloaking the silver lining today. I actually had to laugh when I heard a commentator bemoan the horrible rise in gas prices to over $2 per gallon. Surely they know that prices are rising with the stock market, on expectations the economy will get better sooner - and thus need more gas and oil. Rising fuel price (to a point, 4 bucks plus was criminal) is a good news indicator. The financial news wonks MUST know this and are just being curmudgeonly as a point of professional pride.
Or they are brainless idiots who only read what's put in front of them.
Or both.
Forget TGIF, I can't wait for Saturday ...
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