Michael Jackson and wallabies.

My last post referred to priorities. Well another major story has emerged which also makes me wonder where are our priorities? Michael Jackson has died, apparently from a cardiac arrest
and this has pushed all the other important stories on to the backburner. Why is that deemed more newsworthy than Iran? Afghanistan? The Global Fiscal Crisis? Ok I have never been a fan of his and he was eccentric to put it mildly. But I don't think it is earth-shattering or a major news headline.

Here in Oz, the major story related to what the local press has coined as "Utegate" has largely fizzed and the pollies are eager to distance themselves from its fallout. Then in our state parliamentary budget estimates hearings, The Attoney-General, who also happens to be the Health Minister, revealed that they have solved the mysterious circles in our legal poppy opiate crops. No it isn't aliens from outer space, nor druggies, but wallabies who eat the poppies and then are so high they go around in circles! I laughed so much when I read it in the local papers.
It even made the BBC news! Of course since the Michael Jackson death, this story probably does not have any more newsworthiness.

Robin L. Harwood 0500 UTC