Bits & Pieces
Bits and Pieces from this reporter’s notebook.
Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet...The Pope has celebrated mass in India. Enough said. Well, almost. The country is 110% Hindu, which might explain why the Pope was only able to half-fill a 70-thousand seat stadium in New Delhi. Also, Christian missionaries massacred Hindus 400 years ago, and that’s something not easily forgotten. Apparently.
Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet...A divorcing Las Vegas couple was unable to decide how to split up their Beanie-Baby collection, so the judge had them get down on their hands and knees before him. To split up the pile of dolls, said to be worth about $3500. "It’s ridiculous and embarrassing," said the wife, catching on just a little late.
Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....Microsoft is going to have some conniptions, but no one knows what kind or what will be the final results. When you’re dealing with more lawyers than the population of Miami, and with the same level of grace, ya gotta figure that the rich will get richer, and the rest of us will still have to reboot on a regular basis.
Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....People magazine has announced their selection of the sexiest man alive. No, I didn’t have to return the award. But I gotta think that choosing the sexiest anything is among the dumber publicity gimmicks since Marla Maples. I mean, ya gotta wonder if real people — not the magazine — don’t simply scoff. Considering how many women have how many other choices, and wouldn’t look at the rag’s selection twice. And what about the winner? Perhaps, he too, would think "it’s ridiculous and embarrassing."
Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....Congratulations to Governor George Pataki. He’s ordered New York State to raise their pollution standards to the level that California implemented a year ago. Massachusetts is making similar plans. And it is suggested that this will force the automobile manufacturers to start producing cars that produce fewer emissions. ‘Bout time. I’m proud to live in California where we pioneer sanity on a regular basis, though mostly the attention goes to our occasional excesses.
Da-deet-da-deet-da-deet-deet....And speaking of sanity, it is said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. Oh, oh. I keep reading the news wires thinking that people are gonna get their individual and collective acts together. But we seem to be in a transformation of such extraordinary scope that just holding on presents a challenge. I knew a very bright fellow who said that a persons’s sanity is based on the number of perceived options he has. Another very bright fellow said that it is based on the perception that there is only one option.
And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.
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