Fail Chafe
I don’t know about you, but I, for one, am fully engulfed in a hemorrhiodal flame of irritation at the coverage of the Japanese nuclear reactor story, with all the wild speculation and ramping-up of hysteria by news producers and readers who were traumatized as children by watching The Day After in the 1980′s. The straw that broke the irradiated camel’s back for me was the news that Fox News has sent Shepard Smith over to do his lip-biting, monotonous moralizing, circle-tear-jerk schtick in The Land Of The Rising Cloud.
Thankfully, Jeff G and Stacy McCain have saved me from fully channeling my inner Charles Whitman and heading to the clock tower with a sniper rifle.
Perhaps their efforts will save you too from having to make the stair climb…
Jeff’s posting begins:
A CITIZEN JOURNALIST reports from nowhere near the site of Japan’s impending nuclear armageddon (which should not take away from the bevy of natural disasters plaguing the country and its people just now, because that stuff also sucks hard)
Looks mostly sunny in my backyard right now, but I’m not going to say with any certitude that it won’t rain later.
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update: By the way: if it doesn’t rain later, remember who it was who first reported that it was sunny in my backyard.…
update 3: The sun is still out and still stubbornly pushing westward across the sky. It’s too early to panic, but from my vantage point as a CITIZEN JOURNALIST it looks that, should the sun stay on its current trajectory, it could quite literally crash into the horizon line. In which case, God help us all.
In the meantime, though: scones!
You can read the whole report by clicking here. Well done, Jeff.
As for Stacy: I think he’s come up with one helluva an idea:
…I’m thinking of the coolant potential of aging left-wing folk rockers. That’s why I’ve sent a letter to the the Atomic Energy Commission, suggesting that we send Neil Young to Japan, with instructions to dump him onto one of those troubled Fukushima reactors.
'Dammit! I have my orders!'
I mean, what the hell, it’s worth a try, right?
If that works (and I’m willing to apply a very flexible definition of “works” here) then we send David Crosby to Japan, and try it again on another reactor. Then we keep going down the list of all these hippy-dippy singers and guitar-strummers who are always having benefit concerts for “causes.” Ship ‘em over and – plop! plop! plop! – right onto those overheating reactor cores.
Just to emphasize that this is a global project, we could ask the Brits to send Bono and Bob Geldof.
“Folkies for Fukushima,” we’ll call it. Or maybe “Rockers for Reactors.”
Sign me up as a volunteer roadie, man.
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I don’t see what you’re pissed about. I for one am all in favor of stuffing Sheppard Smith and Christine Amanapour into an open nuclear reactor.
As for Stacy: I think he’s come up with one helluva an idea…
Me? Not so much. I like Neil Young’s music, which I somehow manage to keep separate and apart from his politics which are typically Leftoid batshit-crazy. That Herculean feat seems beyond the capability of Young Stacy (and a lot o’ others), whom I think would prolly be a crashing bore to hang with (and a lot o’ others), there being certain indicators to support my supposition.
But Hey! Good ol’ Red Meat for the echo chamber. That never ceases to play well.
Richard: Need some help?
“update 3: The sun is still out and still stubbornly pushing westward across the sky. It’s too early to panic, but from my vantage point as a CITIZEN JOURNALIST it looks that, should the sun stay on its current trajectory, it could quite literally crash into the horizon line. In which case, God help us all.”
AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Thanks for the belly laugh Bob ;-D