All the news that’s fit to make you switch over to the CD player

Flipped on NPR, as is my wont, at the top of the hour as I started my commute this morning. The top news stories:

• An interim constitution has been signed in Iraq. Of course, this is hardly an historic event, or anything to celebrate, or an achievement, I’m assured in sincere and dolorous tones. There were terrible troubles getting everyone to the table, there were terrorist rocket attacks during the signing period, everyone’s worried about whether it will all hold together, and the document’s evil, evil, evil. So, whatever I do, I shouldn’t think anything good will come of this.
• The only thing George Bush did or said yesterday that was newsworthy was raised a whole bunch of campaign money. A whole bunch more than Kerry did. Look at all that money. That’s it, just did money-raising. Period.

• Kerry continues to criticize Bush for job loss and Iraq problems and 9/11 stuff. He hasn’t ruled out visiting Iraq if he can do so without politicizing it. He had many criticisms for the Bush administration.

• This was followed up by an extended whinge news feature about how being a commuter (in New York, specifically, but it was sort of expressed in general terms) completely dominates your life. Utterly and completely. Defines your whole miserable Dickensian existence, it does.

At which point I switched over to a local news station. Where I heard:

• A Denver area synogogue was vandalized with swastikas last night. Terrible tale. But never mind where it was, or what police think, or whether there have been other recent vandalizations, or whether such vandalizations are up. Instead, the rest of the story was about how “some” local Jewish leaders “wondered” whether Gibson’s The Passion had stirred up anti-semitic feelings.

Yeesh.