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Michael 10 Comments

I almost didn’t post anything today. I had the art already done so I figured I should use it. I hate to waste brain power, I have so little of it available.

It’s been a hard week. In some future post I’ll tell you about it, but for now let’s just say I’m tired. Some days I have the energy of an 8 year old. Other days, the energy of an 8 year old dog. Just getting old enough to really enjoy laying in that spot of sun across the living room floor. Actually that’s *lying* in that spot of sun. See what I mean. A fresh brain wouldn’t make that mistake.

To get back to what I was going to write, which would have been a diatribe against headline writers, I present to you some headlines. They were going to be much more politically oriented, controversial, and certainly tick off somebody. The moral of the story being if you live your life based on headlines and sound bites you probably think it’s appropriate for a man to wear a hat to the dinner table. Probably worn backwards to boot.

Anyway, just yesterday I was shocked (shocked! I say) to discover headline bias in the sports section. See the image below. I watched that game, and to be perfectly honest, neither headline is accurate. But … but, you still have to be a disgusting example of humanity to wear a hat at the dinner table. And for the particularly dense ones, breakfast and lunch too.

See you next week.

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Michael 6 Comments
My exile from WordPress Comment Land (Wopecommelandia) continues. There’s been so much on so many blogs so worthy of comments but all I can do is “like.” I thought about writing a post of all the comments I have written that were suck into Wopecommelandia’s atmosphere but couldn’t come up with an effective way of keeping context. So instead I decided to comment on life. Or death.

The paper here ran this headline Tuesday.
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Death of Woman Whose Body was Found Stuffed Into Refrigerator Ruled Homicide
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It did what headlines are supposed to do and piqued my interest. Sometime in the early 1980s the New York Post ran a headline that has become legendary among tabloid headlines. “Headless Body in Topless Bar” made it clear that was no accident. I shouldn’t have had to read the local article to be as convinced this was not an accident either but I pushed on. The first sentence certainly convinced me. The woman “whose body was found partially dismembered inside an abandoned refrigerator left in the hallway of an apartment building in May, has been ruled a homicide.” I wonder if it was the partial dismemberment that convinced them. And it only took 2 months.
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Maybe those headlines stirred something in my memory. I did a little digging and found it!
Man’s Death During Sex Ruled ‘Workplace Accident’
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The article sourcing a BBC report of a Times of London story about a French railway technician for TSO Rail while in Meung-sur-Loire France died of cardiac arrest while having sex with a woman he had just met. The company’s lawyers argued it was not liable because the accident occurred not while he was engaged in a work related activity. The court ruled that French workers on business trips are “entitled to their employer’s protection for the duration of their mission … whether or not the accident takes place as part of a professional activity or as an act of normal life” and sex is an act of normal life.  So the widow (yes, he was married), gets 80% of his salary until he would have retired and then an unspecified portion of his pension. Better than alimony.
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Since deaths, and now death headlines, come in three, this is a good place to stop. Feel free to comment. If you can. Darn Wopecommelandia!
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