Guess That News Story

Have you ever seen a picture on the front of a newspaper and tried to guess what the story was?  Probably not.  But then, we don’t all aspire to creative greatness.  My apologies if you can never retrieve the next five minutes of your life, but let’s be honest:  it was either this or BuzzFeed, and we both know you don’t need to spend any more time reminiscing about 90s icons or learning 14 reasons why whipped cream is so atrocious.  So here we go – you can click on the picture to see a link to the real news story.  Let me know how close I got!

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7 Things More Important than the Government Shutdown

Politics has become something of a Whose Line Is It Anyway episode.  Everything’s made up and the points don’t matter.  Or rather, the crises are made up and everyone behaves like the issues don’t actually matter.  The debt ceiling, the fiscal cliff, the sequestration, the government shutdown – is it all one desperate attempt to stay relevant?

I have an idea:  What if we all collectively agreed to stop paying attention to their invented political melodramas?  What if news stations realized we were not watching anymore?  What if we stopped tweeting our frustrations and feeding their insatiable hunger for attention? Continue reading