story count......

ok, so i find amusement on most mornings by reading the news as collected by google, as well as by the counts of stories on any given subject......this morning, for example, there were 409 different news outlets with stories about keith richards falling from a tree....410 about ellen getting an emmy.....432 about the harvard girl who got caught plagerizing most of her book.....and 544 about rush limbaugh's indictment for drug fraud....nice to see republican blowhards get their due....or at least in 544 newspapers/websites.......no idea if keith richards falling from a tree was drug-related......i don't actually read the articles unless there is some compelling subject matter.....like the harvard sophomore......i have read numerous pieces about her debacle, and i sought out the harvard crimson piece that started her fall from grace.....i was impressed that her own college newspaper outed her as a fraud.....in this age of googling one could hardly expect to get by with lifting entire passages from somebody's work and pretending that you wrote them.......on the other hand.......my readership is welcome to lift any and all riveting anecdotes from this blog........i would be most flattered.......should your creative efforts earn you an oscar, don't forget to thank the meanmamma......