Living in Wonderland. With Alice.

Maybe we live in a normal, relatively dull and routine world. And it only seems abnormal. Because the news media generally likes to report the unusual. The freakish. The controversial. I see so many normal things going on around me every day. So life seems normal. To me, at least. That is, until I pick up the newspaper or turn on the TV or radio. Then I'm bombarded with weird happenings. Some of it almost unbelievable. Maybe it's fabricated. Gawd, that would be nice. All of it someone's vivid and sick imagination. It would have been nice living 1,000 years ago. Because news didn't get around the world very fast. It was strictly local. And so the news from neighbors, by worth-of-mouth, seemed normal. Almost dull. Now we're inundated with news from around the world. Yes, 24 hours a day. Maybe at odd hours there's no news to report. So news has to be concocted. To fill up the air time. Inconsequential stuff. Made to seem consequential. So that we can feel we're living in wonderland. With Alice. --Jim Broede