Schadenfreude To You Too

This latest study revealing that men tend to enjoy observing pain, while women empathize isn't much of a shock. In fact, it expains, well...everything.

As I've said here before, I think schadenfreude is a great word and I recalled writing a post about it. I almost fell out of my chair when a search revealed that I wrote two posts - on May 16 and September 9 -- 2003! I can't stand it. And I'm not sure why - because it's now 2006 or that I actually recall a post written so long ago. What the hell does that mean?

Counting to 20

I'm beyond outraged that Oprah Dismisses Claims about James Frey's admittedly fictionalized memoir. What can she be thinking -- and what in gods name is wrong with a society that can't figure out you SHOULD condemn someone who doesn't tell the truth -- we need Oprah to say it's okay to lie? Holy shit.

Ellen Logic

I've been having an internal debate over why I'm not posting as frequently to outrage.com. Part of me thinks its my new job, but another part of me thinks that I'm outraged most of the time about Kevin, so there's not much left for anything else. I still get riled up over things but it's different now somehow. I've fallen out of the daily blogging habit and that bothers me most.

So I'm not abandoning outrage.com but I have started a new blog. Jim and Colleen, stop reading now.

It's called All Cat News. Not sure how long it will last but I'm struck regularly at how often felines make news and its time for something different. And god help me, it qualifies as fun for me these days and need as much of that as I can get.

Just Another Day in the News Business

I was about to nominate this article about a mouse fire in New Mexico as one of the year's best.

But then with no effort I find the following articles:

Wash. Woman Suffocates Under House Clutter

Escaped cow may not be doomed after all


They sort of got lost in the mix today because in the span of a few hours, Arnold Schwarzenegger has a motorcycle accident with his son, a respected journalist dies after being mugged in one of the most affluent areas of our nation's capitol, we're watching to see how vegetized Ariel Sharon and a West Virginia Coal miner will be, Howard Stern says fuck on the radio - satellite of course, and Dick Cheney is rushed to the hospital in what I believe was an anxiety attack - they made something up about some medicine - classic panic attack symptoms, but I digress. And the maddest of all? The movie Hostel dethrones both Narnia and King Kong at the box office. What are people thinking?

Nothing Beats Local News

Interesting reading this one (thanks JB) after watching the movie about Alfred Kinsey last night. I wonder, if asked, how many The Seattle Times' readers would admit that the horse sex story was at the top of their 2005 news list . As Kinsey said, what people do, and what people say they do, are usually two very different things.