Thursday, December 31, 2015

Competitive Worthlessness in Journalism

It's not so much the news is so bad but rather reporting on it is so awful there's no way we can know if the news is really bad as they say or even if it's worse than we imagine because the reporters are typically annelids which won't come out of the dirt unless it rains or it's payday.

One asks how Bill Cosby went from being America's dad to being a sex criminal.  Here at the Rockhouse, we will take a wild guess of willful behavior with his penis ... but ... we do admit we are not Constitutional scholars.

Another journo was incensed because Donald Trump has run out of his typically stupid things to say and, I guess, stories of Bill Cosby have set off some penis fascination for him.  He's apparently made some comments about Bill Clinton being a sex criminal.  Yah, he is (shrug).

(Ed:  Bill Cosby was doping women for sex!)

We're not Constitutional scholars but we don't see one whit of difference between doping a woman with a Quaalude or doping her with the power of the Presidency.


There was some stoner news but it was kind of smug in saying no-one died of a marijuana overdose in 2015.  The smugness is failing to mention no-one has ever died of a marijuana overdose.

However, the article, poorly-written as it was, did make a fair point about the number of deaths from legal prescription drugs in 2015 being over twenty-five thousand.  That specifically does NOT include illegal narcotics.  (Huffington Post:  Here's How Many People Fatally Overdosed On Marijuana Last Year)

The information about the deaths from prescription drugs is not even hinted in the headline and thus it's only clickbait.  There are more deaths from these drugs than from suicide by gun and that's another national epidemic.


That kind of things make it almost a relief to go The Guardian, not so much for the news but the banality of the most pedantic paper peddlers in print.  Today's highlight in mundanity wasn't Jessica Valenti, amazingly enough, but rather Sunil Badami who advises us 'it's time for pubic hair to be cool again.'

No shit.

Kids starve in the desert, Middle East gets bombed for who knows what reasons, and Sunil sits around thinking, well, I'm not sure if I should bare the bone or righteously conceal it in the underbrush.

My ol' Dad said the hippie generation was lost to drugs but the Millennials were lost to mirrors.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

it is a chargeable offense to have sex with someone over which you have power. Even it is consentual If a minor with a five age difference it is rape

Unknown said...

It makes a mess out of what to do with Cosby when Clinton has his offense and now offers himself as First Dude while Cosby goes to jail. I don't have a good answer for that one ... well ... except to tell Clinton to piss off.