As I write this, there are two diaries on the rec list with "BREAKING" in the title.
Guess what: whatever it is y'all say is "Breaking, the only reason you know about it is that it already broke somewhere else!!!!!
For gawd's sake, if you've got something you think is that important, why would you waste eight letters in your diary title, or TEN CHARACTERS if you count the colon and the space?
I can decide how important it is for myself, thanks very much. I'm a man of wealth and taste - well, taste anyway.
What I think needs to happen around here is a snarkical jihad on the word, "BREAKING" in diary titles.
BREAKING: Sociopathic Criminal continues to occupy historical site
BREAKING: Questions Arise Regarding Integrity of Fox News
BREAKING: Ann Coulter Suffers Seizure on Live TV
BREAKING: *.*
Idea being, I am prepared to undertake an organized effort to devalue that fucking word so that I will never have to look at it in a diary title again.
Because it's making me skitzy. Evey time I see that shit in the dKos sidebar, I jump out of my fucking socks.
And it INVARIABLY turns out to be either nothing at all, or nothing I haven't already heard, or nothing I ain't about to hear.
FLASH. BULLETIN. This Just In:
Stop. Please.
Thanks very much.