Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

I’m so damn sick of the predictability of the news and the predictable people who react to it. Here’s a sampling of two news stories I found in about 90 seconds this afternoon:

Predictably, every shuttle mission is now about what kind of condition the thermal tiles are in. Until the next catastrophic shuttle event, the thermal tiles will always be the focus of the painfully predictable media. And NASA will have to play along to prevent the predictable media from attempting to whip up the public into a predictable frenzy about allegedly neglected thermal tiles.

And it’s also time for the predictable semi-annual “OMG!!1! TEH I-POD IS DYING111!!!” article by a major news outlet, or perhaps several, if they decide to predictably echo each other. And the predictable responses.
“People hate DRM!”
“It’s just a fashion accessory.”
“It only sells because of marketing.”
“The batteries suck.”
“blah blah the iPod bubble blah blah” (everything’s a bubble now)
“blah blah [some personal comment about Steve Jobs] blah blah”

Predictable. Tired. Annoying.

Is there anyone reading this article who can’t predict, with some degree of accuracy, what the usual politicians will say tomorrow? How about Al Qaeda? News pundits? Talkshow hosts? All predictable. How about the vapid man-on-the-street interviews your local television station will predictably conduct, where they seem to find the stupidest possible people to say the stupidest and most factually bereft possible things? Will you be surprised tomorrow when it happens? Are you looking forward to it?