What's News? Yesterday's Lunch Edition

Yesterday while I ate my lunch from 12:25-:45pm CDT, I flipped back and forth between CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. Here is what I saw:

Fox News - Megyn Kelly had a male and female on the air with her ("Fox News contributors" - whatever that means). They were talking about Richard Falk. Apparently he is on the UN Human Rights Council and is a professor at Princeton and UC-Santa Barbara. It seems he wrote an essay about how US foreign policy helps to breed terrorists, thus, the Boston Bombing is kinda America's fault. That is about all of the facts I ever heard on the story. Otherwise, it was the three of them sharing their disgust with the general gist of the essay and wondering why there isn't more of an outcry against the guy...whom I've never known of and a writer of an essay I will likely never see.

CNN - They had continuous check-ins with various reporters in Boston and Washington D.C. about the latest developments in the Boston Bombing story. There was a few minutes where they covered the tornadoes and weather going through southern Louisiana and New Orleans. Otherwise, it was reporters sharing facts and statements from sources.

MSNBC - Andrea Mitchell discussed a dinner Pres. Obama had the night before with the women in the Senate. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) was interviewed by Andrea about the dinner. The Senator discussed the food they ate, how hospitable the president and the First Lady were, how the conversation focused on finding bipartisan solutions to the nation's problems, and the camaraderie of the group. I think she said "bipartisan" over 50 times in 3 minutes.

237 - The Who - The Who Sings My Generation

Of The Who albums I've listened to while going through the Rolling Stone Top 500 Albums list, this was the most enjoyable listen. There is a little bit of everything on My Generation (or The Who Sing My Generation for their US release). It is a very good album - even the "filler" is entertaining - and I can hear how it inspired other bands. The Who's music on here rocks down to the core. That kind of attitude and passion is damned contagious.

From what I read, the album had particularly loud guitars. Yes, the guitars are "aggressive" in many songs, but I'll have blame naivety on my inability to readily recognize the loudness compared to their contemporaries.

The pleasant surprise for me with My Generation was the R&B. There are two James Brown covers ("I Don't Mind" and "Please, Please, Please") that feature a soulfulness from Roger that I don't think I've ever heard before. I really enjoyed the tones his voice produced on those songs.

Don't let the few songs listed below in the "Likes" cause you to think I disliked many of the songs. Nearly all of the songs not listed below fell just below the threshold of how strongly I want to hear a song to declare it a "like" for these reviews.

Songs I Knew I liked: "My Generation"

Songs I Now Like: "The Good's Gone," "La La La Lies," and "The Ox"

Songs I Can Go the Rest of My Life Never Hearing Again: None