The Media Must Have Content

It feels like the media talks about the swine flu so much that the people get worked up about it and the media talks about people getting worked up so much and so the Vice President says he's hesitant to fly and the media talks about what the Vice President said so much that flights to Mexico are reduced and the media talks about Mexican flights being reduced so much that the airline industry begins losing money and making cutbacks and the media talks so much about cutbacks and less flights and less money that the people get worked up about it and fly less and the media talks about how people are flying less and how airlines people are losing their jobs, which affects the economy and the media talks about how bad the economy is...

Dangerous to Watch Latenight TBN

Here's a CNN story on Don Miller, who wrote Blue Like Jazz (one of my top 9 or so favorite books in the last couple of years). He cracks me up. My favorite quote of the article...

Watching TBN one night on TV, Miller, 36, realized the conservative religious network was many people's baseline for Christianity. He wanted to change that.

"These people are absurd. I've been a Christian all my life and I don't even know Christians this weird," said the Portland, Oregon-based writer, who is single.