Friday, March 18, 2005

The Art of Exaggeration...

Today's Knoxnews has an article about a teeny weeny earthquake that happened a few miles from Knoxville. To it's credit it does refer to it as a "micro" quake. However, it also says that the quake prompted "hundreds" of calls and "there are no reports of injuries". In my opinion they could've done a better job by saying "reports of massive panic are unfounded at this time". "Although substantial damage and chaos are expected, we are unable to corroborate early reports of same". If you are going to report on a 2.5 earthquake (earthshimmy?) you might as well do it right.

And as everybody knows March Madness is upon us. Nice job Alabama. Nothing like losing to a team so obscure, they also have to identify which large city in Wsconsin they are from, so as not to be confused with all of the other large schools in Wisconsin. Let's see, there is University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin State, Wisconsin Eastern Shore, Wisconsin Tech, and Wisconsin Milwaukee.

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