Word: wiring
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Reading the AP wire is a constant lesson in human error. Whether Hsun Tze was right or not about the essential evil of human nature, certain individuals indisputably are innately evil. Like most fundamental optimists, however, I failed to realize just how many of these twisted people are out there...
...typical day, the Associated Press, America's lion of fast, accurate journalism, runs several stories this sickening on its wire. Reading them on an old Atex computer at my desk at work, where we get several AP wires, frequently makes me ill. The AP reports every major scandal, murder, theft, rape or other gruesome deed that makes the papers, and many too gory to hit newsprint cross the wire as well...
Revoltingly, patterns begin to sort themselves out as the stories scroll across the wire. Such portrayals would be stereotypes if they weren't true and descriptive of an individual...
...believer in free will and the right of adults to choose their own paths in life, I have sympathy for a few of the offenders whose lurid stories I read on the AP wire. Juvenile delinquents are one thing. Reading the story of the teenagers who killed an unpopular classmate with a noose during a night of torture, I wondered what other factors had contributed to this crime committed by such young kids...
...need I bring up First Kid? (I thought I needn?t.) I admit freely that it bothered me when Xander Berkeley turned traitor in Air Force One (although he?s an underrated character actor who was the best non-silicon-based thing in the Pamela Anderson vehicle Barb Wire). So if we can believe what we hear -- that you?d rather see Janet Reno naked than testify before Ken Starr?s grand jury or any other -- America, I think, applauds your discretion/humility. You just weren?t meant for stardom...