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Word of the Every So Often
bothsidesism: (noun) the idea, especially among media, that both sides of any controversy need to be represented equally so the media seem fair and balanced, even if one of the “sides” is patently ridiculous. Imagine, for instance, bothsiding arguments on genocide, pedophilia, or cannibalism. It gets especially ridiculous when science is involved, such as trying to show both sides in global warming. By bothsiding arguments it can give credibility to a point of view that isn’t credible in the least, such as racism.
The Almost Daily
Michael Crichton’s novel Jurassic Park was first published on November 20, 1990. The original movie by the same name was released on June 11, 1993. Michael Crichton was born on October 23, 1942, and started his long journey to becoming a fossil on November 4, 2008. And the first velociraptor skeleton was discovered in the Gobi desert on August 11, 1923. All of that has absolutely nothing to do with today. Today, April 18, for no particular reason at all, is National Velociraptor Awareness Day. Though Velociraptors may not have looked exactly like they were portrayed in the Jurassic Park movies (they had feathers), they were easily just as nasty. So, on today, when you’re thinking about a creature that was bigger than you, faster than you, and way stronger than you, and would’ve liked nothing more than to kill and eat you, maybe not in that order, take time to reflect that just perhaps… perhaps… extinction isn’t such a bad a thing after all.
Cartoon of the Week
The artist blurs the difference between what is a hellworthy offense,
and what is not.
Stuff
Time and Temperature
It came as an epiphany.
The bank’s time and temperature wasn’t wrong.
It was actually telling what the temperature
was going to be
tomorrow at 6:17 p.m.
It was a window into the future.
Perfectly useless for most aspects of life,
except maybe planning a picnic,
but nevertheless,
a chance to see what had not yet happened,
what was going to happen
28 hours and 16 minutes from now,
any now.
So instead of going to work one day,
I just sat in the bank’s lot
and watched as it cooled off tomorrow evening,
down to an overnight low of 63,
before it started to warm up again at sunrise,
day after tomorrow.
It was only after I’d been there for over a day
that I noticed the parking lot was full of other cars
with their occupants doing nothing else
than watching that digital readout.
One guy here,
two guys there,
even entire families
sitting in rapture
over what tomorrow’s weather was going to be.
I think it was finally hunger
that made me abandon my spot,
which was quickly filled by one of the cars
circling the lot,
hoping for someplace to land.
At times I’m tempted to go back,
just to see,
just to know.
But that intersection has become so congested
that it would add a full thirty minutes
onto my commute,
and I don’t want to leave any earlier,
and I can’t afford to be late.
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