Journalism on drugs?
Posted on:: February 11th, 2005
“A lonely young star has been discovered fleeing from the Milky Way galaxy at the most fantastic speeds ever seen, and Harvard astronomers say it is doomed to wander throughout the universe for the rest of its life.”
This is the lede of a story in today’s SF Chronicle by its science editor, David Perlman.
A little heavy on the anthropomorphism, wouldn’t you say?
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Ha! Good eye David. It reminds me of a Bill Hicks routine where Hicks asks, “Why doesn’t the news ever do any positive stories about drugs? All you ever hear is about some guy jumping out a window…”
Hicks goes on to act out a newscast doing a positive LSD story:
“Today, a young man on acid realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we’re the imagination of ourselves…. Here’s Tom with the weather.”
It leaves open the question what, exactly, the star is fleeing from so quickly.
…And whether it picked up speed after the Ohio results came in :)
As for you, Mr. Lewis: That was just plain durned funny. Thanks.