"These are the kinds of
"These are the kinds of questions that are provoked by terror alerts: Answering them more clearly and consistently would allow citizens to respond sensibly to warnings."
So spouts the wisdomfont of the Washington Post today. Not to toot my own horn, but *braaaaaapp* I've been saying that since the beginning of March.
And yet: WaPo still says only "Hey! The Public needs information." Surely with the vast research pool they swim in they could manage to put together some handy preparedness charts and pocket-sized five-point security awareness pamphlets. Show some initiative, I say. Why wait for the Guv'mint to get off its bloated bureaucracy and dust off the old Duck n' Cover how-tos? Pri! Vate! Enterprise!
And now venerable Time magazine jumps into the Apocalyptic fray. *Braaaaaapp* A constant theme here; see the visions of Rabbik and others scattered throughout these pages. Mass media: slow-draw McGraws, all. Bow before my prescience and bloated ego.
Ever'body jump on board the train to Megiddo! Load up your cameras and your palmcorders, focus your lenses on the gathering armies! Gaze upon the sores of the damned, the dead seas, the rivers of blood! Tremble before the burning sun, the darkness, the dry Euphrates! Not to mention the evil frog spirits, the earthquakes, the thunder, the lightning...let's see, what else...oh yeah: the hundred-pound hailstones, the whore upon the red multiheaded horned beast...the shouting multitudes...hmm...oh, and of course the Horsemen...with all that plague and famine stuff...and don't get squashed by the Big-Ass Throne of God when it plops down in the middle of New Jerusalem.
*Yawn*
It's lunchtime.
