A "Sit Com" World

Sitcom World There was a time in my Shangri-La world of yesteryear that, by today’s standards, could well be called a Sitcom place to live. This was before immediate “news” from 8000 different talking heads who want you to believe they are the wisest people in the world, have all of the answers and rarely report happenings if they do not fit a particular agenda, or their particular view, which many of us are tired of hearing. We used to get the news a couple of days after it happened. We did not have the instant reporting of today, and sometimes we are better off because of it. We are taking all kinds of meds we don’t need because of the anxiety caused by the continuous “SPECIAL NEWS BULLETIN” that we see crossing our screen, and frequently at the climax of the show we had been watching for 54 minutes and don’t  know how it ended. The interruption frequently is a weather report from some place that has nothing to with our location. National headline, “Joe Blow threatened several pe...