Karyn

133 posts
Recovering journalist. Also, a bunny. [email protected]

Saving Occupy Wall Street

The Occupy Wall Street movement has the attention of the mainstream media.

It’s slipping, though. Last weekend, I saw no reason to include Occupy Wall Street in my newscasts. Going through my wire copy, transcripts, and tape today, I see no reason — again. Maybe a couple lines on a march against health care. There’s nothing here, except a bunch of people sleeping in a park and a handful of a demonstrators getting arrested in smattering of cities across the country. So what? What’s new here?    Continue reading

Horrible, Creepy, and Otherwise Terrible Commercials

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of my Newsbunny-watches-way-too-much-television-and-gets-way-too-involved-in-commercials-roundups.

Every once in a while, commercials pop up that are just so horrific that I  — am simply enchanted. I thought I had a sick mind. I do not. My mind is far more within the mainstream than I ever suspected. Or perhaps the fact that I question what is tossed before me on the screen in this manner — perhaps that means I am far more sick than the mainstream. I can no longer afford therapy. You tell me. Continue reading

Dog Halloween Costumes Are Serious Business

This is my niece, Rosie. She is a St. Bernard. She is wearing a monkey costume.

You see, there is a Halloween costume contest at her day care.  Yes, doggy day care.  And my sister wants to win this year.   I said it seems kind of silly to put all this time and effort into dressing up dogs. You don’t understand, she said. This is doggy day care. This is cutthroat.

Last year, Rosie was a ladybug. And she didn’t win. My sister says one lady cheated last year by promoting her ‘fucking cocker spaniel’ on her personal Facebook page and directing people to the website of the doggy day car to vote for her ‘ugly fucking cocker spaniel’. My sister considers this cheating, because her St. Bernards are way cuter than ‘that fucking piece of shit spoiled cocker spaniel.’ Continue reading

Sure, She’s a Homophobic Jerk, But Should She Keep Her Job?

A New Jersey teacher, Viki Knox, was not happy her high school was celebrating October as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History month.

So she complained about it, on her personal Facebook page. She wrote: homosexuality is a perverted spirit that has existed from the beginning of creation”, and that she was ‘pitching a fit’ about it. Continue reading