I'm so out of the loop.

I used to read at least 3 newspapers online. I had lots of headlines preferenced on my home page. I used to get a paper delivered. I used to watch the news.

I don't do any of that anymore. I'm always going and doing..and not cause Im busy-social-girl..I'm just taking care of business. I catch the nightly news about twice a week, and I buy a paper at 7-11 a couple times a week. I really miss getting the paper delivered, but when the two local papers here merged into one "Newspaper Agency", the price for home delivery went from about $12/yr to around $75/yr. Isn't that crazy? I remember distinctly a time when the kids were very little and I was stay-at-home-mom I got the paper delivered every day..for years. ANd it was dirt cheap.

Anyway, I bought a paper today and have been sitting on the patio devouring it for about 90 minutes. There was a special section in there today about the 2003 CSAP scores. Something I'm a little ambivilent about, mostly because I don't know enough. But I'm kind of a nut for statistics and lists/rankings. I have no idea why, it just fascinates me. I found a site once with a ja-billion statistics about prisoners. I was glued to it, literally for hours. "wow, so if you're a black male living in Oakland, with no high school diploma, and a single parent household..you are 15 times more likely to commit a violent crime on Saturdays after 5p.m. Fascinating. One of the most thought provoking statistic was that while something like 47.7% of black males arrested were acquitted, only about 31.% of white males were. So most of the white males arrested, are found guilty, almost half of the black ones were "let go". To me, that doesn't speak very highly of LEO's who appear to be arresting black males for no good reason.

Anyway...gees...I so digress.

I was surprised to learn in my sojourn throught the newspaper that:

Lord and Taylor is closing 3 stores in Denver.
(woo, sale time.)
Everybody's mad at Hickenlooper (Our new Mayor)
Kobe Bryant is still in trouble (Are we anywhere near sick of hearing about this?)
West Nile has hit Colorado hard. (heh, toldja - lol!)
They're doing that dumb celebrity Mask thing. (*yawn)
It's been determined that the cat mutilations have been done by predators. (ooookay...)
The escalator problem at Coors Field was about a wire or something. Maybe brakes too. (Amanda was there - scary)
Mariah Carey is making another movie. She's gonna be a female boxer. (Please, no)
Stocks are down, I think.
Someone pretended to be a missing child, 22 years later. She called the mother and told her it was her missing daughter. (Why would you do that?)
Bush warns of a real threat. (again, *yawn..)
An audio tape of Saddam Hussein's decrying the death of his sons, is deemed to be authentic. (fuuuuck....)

And that's the way it is...