newsy

so it's tuesday and i've finally finished reading last wednesday's newspaper. isn't it sad? i'm so glad i only get it twice a week now. there's no way i could read it more often than that. although i can zip through them pretty fast if i'm on a roll. wasn't on a roll tonight though- slogged through the front section of sunday's paper. it was all so interesting to me. there was an article about indian women getting their tubes untied so they can have more kids after losing their first families in the tsunami. then there was an article about how domestic travel among blacks is becoming more popular in south africa- it's this whole marketing campaign, because it's not a culture that's used to travel, due to the difficulties during apartheid. and an article about how the ratio of men to women in new orleans right now is something like 6:1.

i think this is news- or at least, this is news i am interested in. i don't care about sensationalism or war. i'm less interested in local novelties, like grandma stealing baby jesus from the nativity. local news does get my attention- the italian guy running the club on the west side, for instance. it's people in their everyday lives i care about. i guess it makes me a prime canidate as a blog reader. i don't care very much about the grand things- the political contriversy or purient gore. it's people, and their individual every day lives, and how they differ from mine, but they're making it through, that i'm interested in reading about.

this was going to be all long and involved, a highly inteligent rant. but unfortunately, i'm also xmas shopping at the same time. i wish i could tell you the fun web pages i'm going to! but i'm afraid you'll either click the link and know what i'm getting you, or you'll click the link and steal my idea for those hard-to-buy-for folk. but by golly it's hard to keep it in!