America's next obsession
I feel for Lisa Nowak. She is going to be the Next Big Thing for the bread-and-circus crowd. Astronaut drives 1,000 miles to confront the girlfriend of the object of her desire? Hoo boy.
Anybody think this will not be the Big Story the sundry news networks will use to keep us from paying too close attention to the liberty stealers in Washington and various state capitals?
It's just way too juicy -
Police said Nowak drove from her home in Houston to the Orlando International Airport – wearing diapers so she wouldn't have to stop to urinate – to confront Colleen Shipman.
Dressed in a wig and a trench coat, Nowak boarded an airport bus that Shipman took to her car in an airport parking lot.
During a check of the parking lot, an officer followed Nowak and watched her throw away a bag containing the wig and BB gun. They also found a steel mallet, a 4-inch folding knife, rubber tubing, $600 and garbage bags inside a bag Nowak was carrying when she was arrested, authorities said. Inside Nowak's vehicle, which was parked at a nearby motel, authorities uncovered a pepper spray package, an unused BB-gun cartridge, latex gloves and e-mails between Shipman and Oefelein.
It's got my attention, and I try my darnedest not to pay attention to these sideshows. Poor Lisa Nowak; she's about to become a cartoon. Surveillance of innocents? Forced vaccinations? Executives usurping the power of legislatures? Who cares? What's the latest poop on Lisa?
Anybody think this will not be the Big Story the sundry news networks will use to keep us from paying too close attention to the liberty stealers in Washington and various state capitals?
It's just way too juicy -
Police said Nowak drove from her home in Houston to the Orlando International Airport – wearing diapers so she wouldn't have to stop to urinate – to confront Colleen Shipman.
Dressed in a wig and a trench coat, Nowak boarded an airport bus that Shipman took to her car in an airport parking lot.
During a check of the parking lot, an officer followed Nowak and watched her throw away a bag containing the wig and BB gun. They also found a steel mallet, a 4-inch folding knife, rubber tubing, $600 and garbage bags inside a bag Nowak was carrying when she was arrested, authorities said. Inside Nowak's vehicle, which was parked at a nearby motel, authorities uncovered a pepper spray package, an unused BB-gun cartridge, latex gloves and e-mails between Shipman and Oefelein.
It's got my attention, and I try my darnedest not to pay attention to these sideshows. Poor Lisa Nowak; she's about to become a cartoon. Surveillance of innocents? Forced vaccinations? Executives usurping the power of legislatures? Who cares? What's the latest poop on Lisa?
posted by B.W. Richardson at
9:55 AM
2 Comments:
Poor Ms. Nowak. She's already been bumped as America's #1 obsession by the death of Anna Nicole Smith!
Poor Ms. Nowak. She's already been bumped as America's #1 obsession by the death of Anna Nicole Smith!
Yeah, Anna Nicole really got the astronaut lady off the hook. We really don't have the attention span to focus on more than one of these circuses at a time!
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