For instance:
The Taliban overran the Afghan army so quickly that the whole plan for them to lower the U.S. flag at the Kabul American Embassy on Sept. 11 -- the ultimate troll for them -- just won't be the same.
Some Afghans are so panicked that they were hanging onto a giant cargo plane trying to take off from Kabul airport... and that was not going to end well, even if they managed to hold on for a time.
Armchair experts are already making sweeping pronouncements about Joe Biden's legacy and the looming disaster for women and girls. Why wait for facts and reporting when we can make provocative guesses?
The pandemic rages on, as does ignorance, cultism, cynical politics... in other words, stuff that is now so common that it hardly registers as news.
Thousands are dead after an earthquake in Haiti, a country we only hear about when our dentist volunteers there for a week each summer. Oh, and just a month ago the president of Haiti was assassinated. Oh, and tropical storm Grace is about to drench the suffering country.
Fred is quickly becoming a hurricane as it churns north toward the Florida panhandle, pushing out headlines about how Florida's government has simply given up on even pretending to protect its citizens.
At least seven states have mandated NOT mandating masks for schools and businesses. So, we hate mandates unless WE are doing the mandating? Huh?
Even a few moments watching news stations will turn up white men and women (exclusively) saying things like, "This is America and no one can tell us what to do. That's the point of America." Wow. Maybe what is REALLY the point of America is to be able to pick and choose your freedoms, as convenient.
California wildfires are spreading and power cuts are coming. And smoke is pouring back into Colorado from fires over 800 miles away after a day or two of reduced haze.
The Rockies bombed on their latest road trip, though Trevor Story is performing so poorly that there may be no takers when he becomes a free agent. So, mixed news there?
The return of evictions for those far behind on rent and out of work means that animal shelters are becoming overcrowded as people have to give up their "pandemic pets."
Vaccine opponents continue to get sick and some get hospitalized, and some die. If I were a spiteful person, however, I might enjoy the fact that a reactionary Catholic cardinal who has spoken long and loud against vaccines is now on a ventilator. So, again, mixed news.
The Washington Monument was struck by lightning yesterday and had to be closed for a time. America will not pay attention to the symbolism.
A headline in the Wash Post reads: 'For many students, the prospect of a new year in college is exciting and stressful'
Um, OK. But how can this be news, since this could be the headline for ANY August for the past 50 years or more?
The reality is that most news is bad news, plus it's Monday. Things couldn't get worse, could they?
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