[rant on]
OK, I’ve just about had it with loud proclamations about bizarre & absurd ideas like this thread’s. We’ve got a nation of over 300,000,000 people; we don’t have to be made aware of the rantings of every crackpot with a microphone or website. It’s just contributing to the “news fatigue”, where stuff that actually matters gets a shrug because it’s just another in a long line of shocking/outrageous reasoning with almost zero perspective on its context & following, akin to giving every “demonstration” the low-and-close photo angle making a 10-person “crowd” look like a force to be reckoned with.
Trying to keep tabs on real news without getting sucked into BS is like trying to move Br’er Fox’s tar baby. I don’t want to touch it lest I get stuck, but I still have to know what’s going on. I’ve given up on Drudge for that reason, MSM is akin to the LaBrea Tar Pits, and even FR is getting rather sticky. I come here to find & follow topics that matter, but still have to wade thru hyped insanity. ARGH!
I keep thinking there should be (and maybe I should start) a curator website featuring “100 News Topics You Must Follow”, avoiding the inconsequential crap (like this thread’s lead story; don’t get me wrong, it’s viscerally entertaining like a road accident) and keeping an eye on stuff that matters but comes-and-goes over long periods.
[rant off]
‘scuze me. Shutting up now.
321.0 SPLAT Liberal Cerebral Defenestration (LCD) or Liberal Acquired Brain Absence (LABA), Complete loss of rationality, cognition, and cerebration due to indiscriminately keeping one's mind so far open that the brain falls out. First and subsequent encounters.