news notes

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News notes ...

Lines at gasoline stations indicate only some of the reasons people are growing cranky in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy that clocked New York and New Jersey early in this week. Syria's bloodbath continues unabated with an attack by rebels on a airbase from which jets fly and bomb their under-armed troops. The U.S. presidential election is winding down towards Election Day on Tuesday ... a vast sigh of relief after hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent to reshape and prop up a governmental system that is hard to praise. And how long has it been -- I really don't know ... six months? a year? -- since the Associated Press started running a daily story headlined "Ten thing to know for today" ... as if acknowledging that reading the news were either beneath the dignity or beyond the capacities of an Internet-overloaded life?

There's more, of course, but my capacity for noting it is all but drained. I guess that, like others, I am grateful when there is chicken for dinner and the armed revolution is not yet a reality.
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