The City of Seattle is having multiple multiple orgasms over the possibility of a pro-basketball team in Seattle. That's all there is on the news locally.
It sounds like the deal will cost half a bil, probably more. Then, if the deal is cut, a pricey sports stadium must be crowded in next to the already existing pricey sports stadiums Safeco Field "The United States' only retractable roof provides break taking views of the Puget Sound" for the baseball Mariners and Century Link Field "home field for the Seattle Seahawks of the NFL".
Meanwhile, foodbanks for the working poor in King County are nearly empty.
Nationally, in a burst of masterful journalism, intrepid Katie Couric is raking coals over the head of the stupid little boy who is a lead football player for Notre Dame and has an imaginary girlfriend. Dear little Katie is not going to ask about the Notre Dame coed who committed suicide after being raped by a Notre Dame football player who was out in the field in the massively touted Alabama/Notre Dame game on January 7, 2013. The coed who was hounded to death by Notre Dame football players and their supporters.
And journalist Katie will never, ever ask one question at any time or anywhere about the sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Los Angeles archdiocese and the child rape coverups.
Panem et circenses. Bread and circuses. Although, to be perfectly honest, there isn't very much bread on the shelves of the foodbanks for the working poor.
But, give them a football game. Or a baseball game. Or basketball. But, especially football. That's a manly game. And we don't have to ask or answer any questions about the gunfight in the OK Corral -- Texas, Lone Star College’s North Harris campus was under lockdown Tuesday afternoon, after two suspects shot multiple people...
And no one will ask why the hell a 15-year=-old near Alburqerque, New Mexico had access to an AR15 that he used to blow away his mother, his three siblings, his father, and he planned to take out his girlfriend's family and a crowd of people at the local Wal-mart where his stupid father probably bought the AR15.
Shades of Newtown, Connecticut.
Shades of gun love.
Shades of utter stupidity.
If Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes had never been born, America would have been well served.
If Dame Elisabeth Joy deLancey Greene Murdoch had, in the first trimester, aborted Rupert Keith, the world would have been spared the lying spectacle of Fox News, the gross physical and spiritual ugliness of Roger Ailes, Fox doxies and brainless chubs who parrot the words of Roger Ailes.
Oh yes, and to crown it all the feckless FCC is going fart around and let Rupert Murdoch own all the media in Los Angeles, the F*ing Farting FCC, now to be known as the FFFCC.