I have to say, if I was going to be almost completely oblivious to TV, radio and newspapers for ten days, I picked a good time to do it. While we were away, we never had time to watch TV, didn't bother trying to find local radio stations since we had tons of music on the iPod, and avoided even looking at the front page of newspapers because we didn't want to be spoiled for who won Survivor.
The only glimpse of TV news I had was a few minutes of "Good Morning America" on May 3, while I was waiting for my car radiator to be repaired. At one point they interviewed some woman in a uniform, she was claiming not to have known about torture? Huh? I was so focused on my immediate problems that I couldn't pay much attention. I wasn't sure who was supposed to have been tortured, or if that's even what they meant. I half-convinced myself that I must have heard them wrong & then put it out of my mind when we got back on the road.
Getting back and catching up on my web reading was a bit of a shock. Some guy getting decapitated on video? Hired mercenaries torturing people? Jeez louise, is this America? It's enough to make me want to put my head back under the sand.
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No, it isn't America any more. We're now "UniSAM", a wholey-owned subsidiary of Haliburton.
Sorry about that; I assumed you had gotten the memo.