Hump Day Blues.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009 Filed in: Completely irrelevant, Current Events, Ammunition

It's a rare thing when I make social commentary, as Tam and Marko cover such things far better than I ever could. I hope you'll forgive me, however, for this brief interlude from the technical chatter.

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The rest of the world (meaning everything outside of the gun culture) is just now finding out about our ammunition supply issues. I found this column from Maine's Morning Sentinel to be quite interesting. When people who live their lives wholly apart from the concept of self reliance start paying attention to stuff like this, you know something is about to reach critical mass.

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It is my habit to sit down with my lunch and watch the midday news. (The internet, sadly, is still lacking in quality resources for local news coverage, at least here in Oregon.) Much to my surprise, the local network affiliate was running not the news, but the memorial service for a has-been singer/odd duck. ABC, CBS, NBC - all had preempted the news for continuous, live coverage of what amounted to a freak show.

Surely, I thought, the serious news outlets would not fall to this madness. How wrong I was. CNN, FOX, and MSNBC were all covering, not the imploding economy or the federal takeover of private industry or the all-time record deficits or North Korea's saber rattling, but the funeral of a mere pop star.

I've often said that being a pessimist is great, because you can never be disappointed. I guess I just wasn't pessimistic enough.

-=[ Grant ]=-

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