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Obsession (Part II?)
By Michelle | October 18, 2007
Lately I’ve developed a new obsession: current events. Sometimes when I’m cooking dinner or driving in my car or doing whatever, I get this insatiable urge to find out what’s going on right now around the world. Because it there’s something I’ve learned over the past few months, it’s that there’s always something happening somewhere.
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This evening, while WAMU was trying to coax money out of its listeners, I looked up at the ABC News Ticker while stopped at a stop light and noticed that there had been attacks against Bhutto in Pakistan. The guys in the car next to me must have thought I was checking them out because I had to tilt my head in an awkward way to see the text as it scrolled across the building… |
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When I returned home, the first thing I did was switch on the computer and start browsing. I already knew of Nicolas Sarkozy’s divorce announcement, though, and none of the other top stories on news.google.com seemed particularly new. A little digging through my Google Reader news feeds brought up the following points of interest:
- Air Force To Fire Officers For Nuke Gaffe: CBS News (10/18)
- France faces second day of strike chaos: AFP (10/18)
- China’s first astronaut looks ahead to establishing Communist Party branch in space: Union Tribune (10/18)
Topics: East Asia, In the News |