Good-bye 2009. Hello Weird.

I don't read much news, as far as news goes. I do read headline feeds from a number of sources, including a local paper, CNet and Slashdot (tech stuff), NY Times, BBC, USA Today, and some general sources like Yahoo and Google. Keeps me up on what's generally happening that people think I should know about. It gets repetitive, but sometimes one source will be highlighting something that the others are ignoring.

Today, the last day of 2009, it just struck me how odd the whole collection looks together. Of course a lot of things are reviewing 2009, and the decade. But in normal headlines, we note that 8 Americans died in a suicide attack, 20 people died in a double suicide attack elsewhere, Bali (I think) is warning that they expect terrorist attacks on the New Year, some places are going to start using full body scanners, war here and there, the Sheens are looking to be reconciled (and those all delight in poitning out "despite arrest and assault charges"), and a 22-year old duck died in UK (supposedly the oldest duck in the UK). Some unniversity posted their usual end-of-year list of word abuse, and decided that sexting, and obama-anything, are overused and should be tossed from the lexicon. Apparently people who weren't American, like 5 Canadians, also died in that suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

It struck me that the majority of the news was about war and death. And yet in the same news sources, there was this random junk about ducks and movie stars...

Good-bye 2009. We may miss you. But 2010 promises to be even weirder.