In the News

How many of you remember the little tidbit of information we use to get on Saturday mornings? When I was a kid long before cable and the 555 channels available today, Saturday mornings was the highlight of a kids week. You would get up every Saturday morning fix yourself a bowl of corn flakes still your Dad's favorite chair and turn on Tom and Jerry, Roadrunner and Wiley, or if you were lucky Hotwheels or Josie and the Pussycats. You had the TV all to yourself and possibly a sibling or two. Your folks were most likely sleeping off their long week of work and Friday night of play.

It seemed evry hour or every half hour a little update on what was happening around the world would come on instead of a commercial. It was called, "In the News". The narrator had the coolest voice I think next to Darth Vader. The news never was political or Earth shattering it always pertained to things in science, sports, or current events.

When I come home from work now Jock, Slick or lil sis can be found in the middle of the day in the middle of the week watching cartoons. And the news always pertains to distruction, dispair and politics.

My new "In the News" guy is Opie Outlaw. I haven't heard his voice but his news is a lot like that when I was a kid. Its interesting and worth the look at his blog. Besides he has a kitten cannon.