I really need to stop watching the news in the morning. I guess I go for days at a time, before I see something obnoxious on TV news or hear something from the radio. Yet when I do find something toxic, it always makes me wonder why I bother watching at all, erasing all of the “good” days that I do catch the news. Today’s news reports were about average: war protestors, peace advocates, updates on Bridgeport’s former mayor – on trial for accepting gifts for city funded contracts (which is racketeering I believe,) and updates on Waterbury’s former mayor – on trial for soliciting sex from two pre-teen girls via a crackhead prostitute. Quite a bit to stomach with the morning coffee, I’ll admit, but a story on Good Day NY is what cause the rug burn on my chin, because I couldn’t believe what I heard. A mother from Texas was whining about the amount of homework her son has been getting and that there was so much of it, started to do it for him – she even mentioned that it took too long to help him with it, during school nights.
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