Back to Knowing about the World

Thanks to the random comments from many of my friends lately, I've realized that staying at home all night long has put me a little out of the news loop. I didn't realize that I normally know what's going on in the world...and that recently I've been missing it. Actually, I don't know if I'd necessarily say that I was "missing" it per se, but I've at least been out of the know.

After some serious thought about it...

I had mostly been getting my news from the radio and from tvs at bars I frequent. That's pretty sad that most of my news stories either didn't have pictures or didn't have sound when I absorbed them. Sometimes all I need to see is a picture of something and know where it is to understand the severity of the situation. I don't need to know all about how long it's been raining in south carolina...the picture of the flooded street with the label "such and such", south carolina is enough to tell me about how long it rained! heh. And being a delivery driver, I spent a LOOTT!!! of time in my car, and inevitably listened to the radio for at least part of the time, which would infiltrate me with tidbits of news on occasion.

I've never been this out of touch with the news of the world. I'm a government major for chrissake! Thus, yesterday I decided to add a newspage msnbc.com to my "homepages" that pop up when I open the internet, so that I wouldn't be as out of touch with my world just because I can't go out and get involved in it anymore. Then today, when I realized why I don't really like television news...because it's rather biased towards "one side or another" (not gonna go into that personal opinion rant) and I realized that seeing those types of stories was ok, but it didn't necessarily give me enough info to form the kind of opinions that I would normally develop--you know the kind based on non-biased information and that has all the facts straight--I added another news site to my homepages, one of my personal favorite political magazines The Economist so I thought I'd share with everybody that I'm making a concerted effort to not be so out of touch these days...now when you ask me, so what do you think about the new planet? I'm not gonna go "uh...duh! huh?" or when you're telling me about how you don't know if you'll be able to leave the house today because the tropical storm might hit you, i don't have to ask, "uh? what tropical storm?"

So thanks guys...I'm no longer a drunk, and I no longer have a job...thanks for helping me realize that because of those things I no longer hear any news at all!! But I have internet! so I can still know...see, see, see...I'm smart. I figured that all on my own. *pats self on head*