The Rabbit Hole of Mainstream News

I am thinking about the most discerning of us in terms of what we choose to allow in our minds (by that I mean those most likely to be rounded up and tossed in a volcano when the full on Idiocracy takes hold). Those of us who avoid mass infotainment like CNN, Fox, MSNBC (who names a network for a terrible autoimmune disease, by that I mean Microsoft automatic updates?) “Witch!” “Literate” “Non-Litterer/Literate” “Middle School Graduate”—you know, all the categories that will get you sent down the volcanic vent in an attempt to appease the Climate Gods who for some reason are going to be really angry here in about 60 years or maybe next Tuesday. So yeah, us.

A reader and friend pointed out a hilarious clip (in that funny way that you giggle at the grim reaper when he trips on his sassy gown coming at you) that shows no less than 16 news anchors reciting (all Stepford like) “Economic factors may take some spring out of the Easter Bunny’s step this year.”…..this to prove the obvious–that they are purveyors in nonsense, yes, but not even original nonsense. They were all reciting the same lines! Some asshole with the sense of humor of an edgy member of a Drink More Orange Juice PAC writes this stuff and evidently sends it by pigeon (assuming the economic factors have not taken the flight out of the pigeon) to every incest riddled television station across this land for full contagious dispersal. It’s all pretty ridiculous since the Easter Bunny really shouldn’t get involved in economics anyway; fuck him. He had one job.

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