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February 2, 2005

Mornings on 2

Note to the folks at “Mornings on 2” on KTVU: most people don’t really watch morning news shows for long periods at a time. Thus, if you tease stories repeatedly for an hour or so before they actually air, all you end up with is a lot of pissed off people who never see the story in question and who eventually stop caring and start watching some other channel’s morning news…

Especially if watching that other channel frees them from hearing the perpetually trite pronouncements of one Frank Somerville…

Semantics

I made a bank run for work this afternoon and as I left, the teller told me to “have a blessed day”. Now even if I believed in such a thing as a “blessed” day, which I don’t, wouldn’t it sort of be out of my hands as to whether or not I had one? Wouldn’t that instead be up to the one doing the actual “blessing”?

Yeah, semantics. I know. And then there’s this:

Jeez, what did they do? Shoot him? Wouldn’t it have been enough just to have cancelled his speaking engagement? Did they have to cancel him?

I’ll stop now…