CNN has no real news!

Another reason why even the internet can't save America

It's true - I'm online a lot. I'm online at work all day. I don't have a working TV so I'm online at home a disproportionately high amount as well. So naturally I surf the glorious world wide web a bunch too. In fact, I'd even venture to say that the world web is not wide enough, for the amount of browsing I do. In my surfing adventures I've found some really neat-o pages (insert awesome example). Unfortunately I've also found some clunkers that make me want to repeatedly headbutt my wall. Some pages are just so stupid that they attack the god-given faith I have in the awesomeness of our great land and I begin to question the efficacy of the people who dwell in it.

Just the other minute or so I came home from an Ultimate game and realized I wasn't at all tired (editors note: games at LAOUT end at 11pm), so, I decided to read up on the day's news. It didn't take me long to realize just how intellectually far we've stumbled as a nation. I imagine most (or both) of the readers of this here blog are familiar with cnn.com. If you aren't, please use the previous Url to help me illustrate my example. Most of the time cnn.com's layout is comprised of a headline story (with a picture) to the left and 8 or so 'more top stories' links to the right. Granted, summer is supposedly a traditionally slow time for news, but give me a friggin' break. We are fighting two separate wars and are in the middle of one of the closest Presidential races in history, not to mention all of the investigations of key executive branch offices that are currently underway. Hell, today, crude oil prices yet again hit another record level. So in the middle of this boring quarter of the annual news cycle this is what I find a minute ago:

* Bryant accuser weighs future of case
* Sources: Al Qaeda may have made contact in U.S.
* Illinois GOP offers Senate nod to Keyes
* Couple quit smoking -- to save their sick parrot
* Pupil raped by teacher: 'I love her'
* Twins separated in landmark operation
* Boy, 13, dies after running from bear
* 'Tigger' worker acquitted of fondling teen


2 headlines that could be described as relavent national news--as something that belongs on the frontpage of a serious medium of news. 2 of 8 for Christ's sake. That's it -- I'm done. I can go to sleep soundly now blissfully complacent in the knowledge that the world as we know it is slowly being FOXed down.