Listening to National Public Radio can be very distracting, possibly even worse than keeping up with this site. However, today at noon, I sadly missed the end of an Obama speech to a Wall Street crowd (nobody got smacked, apparently) and sat, dejectedly as the speech coverage switched to the Internet and the regular Lenoard Lopate show took over my radio.
Wikileaks
I wasn’t disappointed for very long, NPR almost always has something interesting going on. Although I will say that they have an almost fiendish penchant for finding the world’s worst music for shows like Sound Check.
The next story up was about Wikileaks release of a gun-camera video from a helicopter orbiting a square in bagdad during the roughest part of the fighting there. Complete with chilling audio commentary from the soldiers themselves, it features the almost complete annihilation of 8 to 10 civilians and two news men from Reuters. The video goes on to show a passing van with two men and two children stopping to rescue one of the civilians who was still moving. How does the song go?
“Out of the doorway the bullets ripped. Another one bites the dust.”
Or in this case, two more dead men and two wounded children. The van didn’t do so well either. You don’t find out about the kids in the car until after you see the helicopter gunship’s 30 and 50 caliber guns “ventilate” it. Continue reading Pardon my bullets
Pardon my bullets
Mowed 'em down
Listening to National Public Radio can be very distracting, possibly even worse than keeping up with this site. However, today at noon, I sadly missed the end of an Obama speech to a Wall Street crowd (nobody got smacked, apparently) and sat, dejectedly as the speech coverage switched to the Internet and the regular Lenoard Lopate show took over my radio.
Wikileaks
I wasn’t disappointed for very long, NPR almost always has something interesting going on. Although I will say that they have an almost fiendish penchant for finding the world’s worst music for shows like Sound Check.
The next story up was about Wikileaks release of a gun-camera video from a helicopter orbiting a square in bagdad during the roughest part of the fighting there. Complete with chilling audio commentary from the soldiers themselves, it features the almost complete annihilation of 8 to 10 civilians and two news men from Reuters. The video goes on to show a passing van with two men and two children stopping to rescue one of the civilians who was still moving. How does the song go?
“Out of the doorway the bullets ripped. Another one bites the dust.”
Or in this case, two more dead men and two wounded children. The van didn’t do so well either. You don’t find out about the kids in the car until after you see the helicopter gunship’s 30 and 50 caliber guns “ventilate” it. Continue reading Pardon my bullets