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Normalized News

So, I'm listening to the radio on the way down the road. To a "local color" piece about a some cowboys out west and they're interviewing this one cowboy, "What's it like out here?" and he responds "Well, we're just rounding up some cattle out here, bringin' 'em in and cuttin' their n(bleep)uts off". For a split second I wonder, then I realize, they've bleeped out "nuts"...cows nuts obviously an offensive term to burger loving *****sapiens who might be listening over the air. I think, "hmmm, ok so this is news normalcy, where bovine killers are offended to hear of cuttin' off cow nuts. Yet yesterday when I was listening and they spoke of gang wars down south, and how teachers were being threatened, and how yesterday, six severed heads were found in front of a local elementary school, but authorities were not sure if the grisly discovery was gang related or not. So, normalcy is when people's decapitations for power control of gang turf is not bleepable to my sensibilities, but cow castrations are. Now I feel normal. What the (bleep)! © Goode Guy 2011-09-30

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