What's in the news: the back story
The back-story (a phrase that seems to have popped up overnight) is the story behind the story.
So... I reached into my newspaper re-cycling bin yesterday to retrieve a story I'd missed, and the back-story leaped out of the box and scrambled across my garage floor. Evidently a mouse had taken up residence in the bin and was as surprised as I was. I confess I went right out and bought a mouse trap ... so this rodental back-story is now toast.
The new better mousetrap comes in packs of four, for just a couple of bucks. Instead of having a place for cheese, there is a plastic fake cheese plate - yellow, with holes like swiss cheese. I don't know if it contains an attractant odor, because what it seems to depend on is the fact that mice hug the wall when they traverse a space. If the trap is backed up to the wall, they run under (over?) the fake cheese plate and thwack, that's it.
You would think, with so many big lies afloat today (the link between al qaeda and 9/11, the success of the war in Iraq, our noble behavior towards war prisoners, the private account solution to the "social security crisis", etc etc etc), that one of them would trip the fake cheese plate and the Bush administration would get permanently thwacked. But despite the revelation of some fairly horrific "secrets", the American public is more concerned with Terry Schiavo's life, Michael Jackson's sordid trial, and the next American Idol to care, so the thwacks glance off seemingly without harm.
I loved loved loved Garrison Keillor's rant about the Republicans last August - here's a sample quote about their lies:
More from him later.
So... I reached into my newspaper re-cycling bin yesterday to retrieve a story I'd missed, and the back-story leaped out of the box and scrambled across my garage floor. Evidently a mouse had taken up residence in the bin and was as surprised as I was. I confess I went right out and bought a mouse trap ... so this rodental back-story is now toast.
The new better mousetrap comes in packs of four, for just a couple of bucks. Instead of having a place for cheese, there is a plastic fake cheese plate - yellow, with holes like swiss cheese. I don't know if it contains an attractant odor, because what it seems to depend on is the fact that mice hug the wall when they traverse a space. If the trap is backed up to the wall, they run under (over?) the fake cheese plate and thwack, that's it.
You would think, with so many big lies afloat today (the link between al qaeda and 9/11, the success of the war in Iraq, our noble behavior towards war prisoners, the private account solution to the "social security crisis", etc etc etc), that one of them would trip the fake cheese plate and the Bush administration would get permanently thwacked. But despite the revelation of some fairly horrific "secrets", the American public is more concerned with Terry Schiavo's life, Michael Jackson's sordid trial, and the next American Idol to care, so the thwacks glance off seemingly without harm.
I loved loved loved Garrison Keillor's rant about the Republicans last August - here's a sample quote about their lies:
Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous. Rich ironies abound! Lies pop up like toadstools in the forest! Wild swine crowd round the public trough! Outrageous gerrymandering! Pocket lining on a massive scale! Paid lobbyists sit in committee rooms and write legislation to alleviate the suffering of billionaires! Hypocrisies shine like cat turds in the moonlight!
More from him later.
posted by JoieDe at 9:44 AM
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