Mine, hands down, is The Back Page. It's where a cool photo is surrounded by paragraph long news stories. I can find out nobody likes Casey Anthony, that the miners were freed from the collapsed mine and that Heather Locklear is now engaged to Jack Wagner. That's enough for me. I'm not so much interested in the latest shooting in LA, which politician is embroiled in a scandalous twitter photos or anything that's happened very far away from me. Yes, world news is important and affects us all, but that stuff leaks in whether I want it to or not, so I don't really need to seek it out in my morning paper.
But what I LOVE are the stories of idiot criminals featured almost exclusively on The Back Page. You know....the guys who broke into a police van to take gag photos of themselves being arrested. And then managed to lock themselves in. Since their other idiot friend who came to rescue them couldn't break into the van despite their previously successful instructions as to how, had to call 911. Uh huh, as soon as they were rescued by the responding officers, they were officially arrested. Guess they didn't need those gag photos after all.
If it happens to be a Sunday when I come across a little laugh out loud gem like that, and Bill and I are sitting on the back porch having our coffee and reading the paper together, I absolutely interupt whatever important article he's reading to subject him to a read aloud of the story. I don't think he always loves this, but I figure it's good for him to gain a little perspective. If we have idiots here, so do the bad guys over there. Of course theirs usually have a bomb strapped to their chests.
My favorite news story today...Abercrombie and Fitch offering The Situation of Jersey Shore fame thousands of dollars to stop wearing their clothes because it's bad for the company's image. BA HA HA HA HA!
Awww who wouldn't want that associated with their product?! Hey Bill, listen to this one...Have a fab day everyone!
~S
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