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Yours is a very well-reasoned comment. Another, perhaps picky, but grating-to-the-nerves detail and pet peeve of mine, is the totally irritating, shrill, metallic voices that are rife all day long with the Fox news-babes, not to mention the rapid-fire delivery of words by some of them at a speed-rate which is a thousand times faster than the normal speaking voices of most Americans....and so fast, the brain of the listener can barely absorb and assimilate the content.

I read on the internet that the ridiculously-squeaky, almost unintelligible Elisabeth Hasselbeck has admitted she has an "annoying voice", a fact with which I not only agree, but she could have added Dana Perino the Shreek onto the list along with the intense, bullying, overbearing, over-talking, loud voice of non-stop talker, Won Williams.

Not to mention that socialist, robotic, serial-talker, Richard Fowler.....and that bizarre, wildly-ranting, totally-bonkers muslim imam or whatever he is...don't get me started, there's more on my list, LOL.

My relief from the Fox cacaphony and its parade of freaks and cartoon characters is flipping over to some good non-news TV alternatives, a good book, and my trusty New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles in my comfy bed before turning off the lights. Peace and quiet at last.

(....and freeping, of course, is more soothing to the nerves...since FR gives me all the news and analysis I need to know without incessantly grating my ear drums).

Leni

You parallel my thoughts exactly.

I don't read the newspaper or watch any local TV news. So all of my news is generally from Free Republic and the links on the Drudge Report. Between the two online sources, I get any news I would ever care to get. And I get it faster than Fox News. I am appalled sometime that people like O'Reilly brag about not being on the internet but in the same moment, not know what's going on out in the world except what his producers feed to him.

I guess the world is not perfect and never has been. But I realize now that I am on the downhill slide of history and my life. I am not out of touch so much as I am not interested in the new stuff. I don't like it. I don't believe in it. Everything is "Black Lives Matter" or microaggressions or white privilege or gay pride or transgender bathrooms or climate change is killing the planet or serial, congenital lying politicians or political correctness everywhere, including the military where it should not have a place or assaults on the Christian religion or gun control or making a deal with Iran so they can have nuclear weapons and on and on and on. The world is upside down and a completely different place than when I was growing up and raised my family.

Now, I am kind of glad that I will more than likely be six feet under when the sh*t hits the fan big time. I don't want to live in a world who's future looks dim.