Japan erupts into civil war! Australia destroyed by accidental nuclear blast? Yankees/Red Sox collapse/Rays make playoffs!
Any or all of this could have happened (other than the statistically impossible last item) over the last few days and I would have known none of it. All our usual sources of news have been cut off.
Barb and I get a daily paper, which Barb reads from cover to cover and whose headlines and lead articles I scan. Traveling about town, I listen to the radio and pick up on various news broadcasts. At night, Barb visits internet new sites and I throughout the day have access to several news focused blogs.
By such means we keep up with the daily news. On this trip, and especially over the past few days, we’ve had access to none of this, and we feel particularly cut off because of it. We’ve been completely without newspaper and internet, and to cap it off, until I fixed it last night, the radio in the car has not been working.
Of course, ordinary life does not require constant news updates, other than to keep up on the marital harmony of our celebrities and law-breaking of our NFL stars.
I suspect that the news over the past few days includes the fact that we continue in an economic slump, that Congress continues to wrangle over health care reform, that soldiers are still sadly dying in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that the Rays are finishing up a lost season.
But I think I’ll buy a newspaper today just to be sure.
TulipGirl
Yup. . . I've been there. Figured if anything REALLY important were to happen, a real, live person would tell me.Actually I was in that type of news bubble on 9/11. . . Just so happened we were somewhere with the news on, so we saw it from almost the beginning. . . saw the second plane hit.And my news bubble actually had me doubting it was really happening at first. Thought it was some sort of complex promotional for a new disaster movie.Sadly, I was wrong.
Gail and Keith
Right on all counts on the news. The Country continues in its mess here and abroad. On another note, Jeremy was given tickets to a Cubs game tonight, a reward for helping someone move. Temps to be 48-51 degrees and winds out of the north. He's wearing his winter, winter coat.G
Randy Greenwald
And the Reds host the Cardinals here tonight, with temps in the same range. I'd still love to go, but can't. Hope he has a great time!