Last night I was on a flight that had digital TV service. At first I was excited to watch. What a mistake. There was a story on CNN about drunken pilots. One pilot had poured vodka into his Starbucks coffee cup. Another had to be driven to the airport because he wasn't sober enough to drive on his own. How is it that my 4 oz of Metrogel gets confiscated because we're only allowed 3.5 ounces (even though it was half empty) but the person flying the plane can get through intoxicated?
Passengers never know what really goes on when they fly. Part of the same story talked about how air traffic controllers often get less than 3 hours of sleep then do back-to-back 8 hour shifts. I switched the channel.
Next was the Weather Channel and the headline was: Severe Weather Alert ' don't fly if you don't have to.
I changed to E! Entertainment news. Halle Berry has revealed that at one point, she thought about suicide. Who hasn't? I'm wondering what the thought was that entered her head that stopped her. Maybe it was: What am i doing? I'm hot!
Then there was story on Heather Mills. Every day in America there is something on her and her courage. She was on the Ryan Seacrest show and someone called in and said they had initially made a judgment on her based on what she read in the papers and now that she knows the 'real' Heather, she just wanted to apologize to her on behalf of the whole country. Heather breaks down and starts crying and says how all she ever did was fall in love with someone and give up seven years of her life for him. Then, her surgeon talks about the operation she just had to 'heroically" allow her to appear on Dancing with the Stars.
What else. On Fox news the big story was on Imus ' an American radio talk show host ' being fired for making nasty racist comments. So much for free speech.
There was gossip show that reported various socialites had been dancing on tables. Who dances on tables? I can't imagine what it would feel like to think: dancing on the floor isn't good enough. I need to be on top of a table.
I turned the TV off and thought about a funeral I went to recently. That cheered me up. There was a liturgy available for any type of death. Someone who lost a loved one too early or death from old age, or death from an illness or death from loneliness. Loneliness? I didn't know someone could die from that'.