Where do they get this stuff?

Todd posted this on his blog solely to justify checking his gmail at work.

But Gmail-chatting with Gary Scott keeps the darkness at bay.

Fiction writers couldn't come up with what newspapers publish. From innocentenglish.com some real newspaper headlines: Grandmother of eight makes hole in one;Deaf mute gets new hearing in killing; Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers; House passes gas tax onto senate; Stiff opposition expected to casketless funeral plan; Two convicts evade noose, jury hung; William Kelly was fed secretary; Milk drinkers are turning to powder; Safety experts say school bus passengers should be belted; Quarter of a million Chinese live on water; Farmer bill dies in house

It's like I am at Wed. Night's District 1 meeting all over again. Deja vu. Its all nonsense except for my issues which are the most important of the 20th and 21th century. Why oh why can't people see my genius and give me everything I want. Now! I will hold my breath I swear. What? Light refreshments? perhaps I may be persuaded to attend the next one.

one of my favorite Onion articles with a similar theme: http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/study_38_percent_of_people?utm_source=EMTF_Onion here's a bit of it: "In a surprising refutation of the conventional wisdom on opinion entitlement, a study conducted by the University of Chicago's School for Behavioral Science concluded that more than one-third of the U.S. population is neither entitled nor qualified to have opinions."

It's a short article ...............................CHICAGO—In a surprising refutation of the conventional wisdom on opinion entitlement, a study conducted by the University of Chicago's School for Behavioral Science concluded that more than one-third of the U.S. population is neither entitled nor qualified to have opinions. "On topics from evolution to the environment to gay marriage to immigration reform, we found that many of the opinions expressed were so off-base and ill-informed that they actually hurt society by being voiced," said chief researcher Professor Mark Fultz, who based the findings on hundreds of telephone, office, and dinner-party conversations compiled over a three-year period. "While people have long asserted that it takes all kinds, our research shows that American society currently has a drastic oversupply of the kinds who don't have any good or worthwhile thoughts whatsoever. We could actually do just fine without them." In 2002, Fultz's team shook the academic world by conclusively proving the existence of both bad ideas during brainstorming and dumb questions during question-and-answer sessions.