Today’s writing challenge – Find a news article, read and then write your own take on it. It also mentioned something about journalists being impartial.
By now both you and I know I spend more time writing about the writing prompt then actually writing what the prompt says. On my blog I don’t write about controversial topics. I don’t write about politics, religion, or world events. Mainly because as weird as my humor is, my views are weirder.
Journalists impartial, that’s a laugh. Every article I read was an opinion piece. I doubt journalist about as much as I doubt bankers and politicians. Attorneys have dropped to four in my doubtful people list. Good news for attorneys I suppose.
I decided to stay relatively safe and write about science. (Though I don’t know why they had to demote Pluto, the planet, not the dog. They may have demoted the dog too. But that might be controversial, I don’t know what Pluto has been up to since I was a kid. He and I haven’t kept in touch.)
I looked through several studies and found something curious. Scientists read a bunch of other studies and then write a study of their opinion of the other studies. Back when I was in school that was called a book report. I know I’m going back to grade school, but I remember having to develop a theory, run experiments, record observations and then write the results. I didn’t know I could watch Jo Ann’s experiment. Her father was a NASA engineer. She could run through some science let me tell you. If I had read her report and written one about her’s, I would have gotten a much better grade. But for some reason my teacher called that cheating.
Someone needs to have a talk with my teacher. It turns out it wasn’t cheating, it was science and I was a genius ahead of my time. Maybe I should become a scientist, I was good at writing book reports. Oh wait, that’s writing again, which is why I’m doing the writing challenge in the first place. Catch twenty-two.
Maybe I’ll start a political blog for my bizarre views. I’m not a Republican or Democrat. I’m an equal opportunity hater. Oh wait, another blog. That means more writing. Crap. I’m going in circles.
Why do all of my ideas involve more writing? Maybe that’s tomorrow’s writing prompt.
You are too funny! Thanks for the laugh 🙂
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You’ll be pleased to know that Pluto is classified as a dwarf planet -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto … I bet that’s as good as dwarf fruit trees. Not too big and not too small!!
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Science, ever shifting with the sands of time. The world use to be flat and you could fall off of it. Art is more permanent. The Mona Lisa hasn’t changed.
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The world could still be flat. A little research on this topic will take you to new places…But yes, anything of man is relative and ever-changing. Sadly, the Mona Lisa is changing on a molecular level….There is only one Truth – The Word of God. It’s absolute and never changing! Bless You!! Awesome Blog!!
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Maybe I should take my cue from you and start writing again. I need some writing challenges too perhaps. Thanks for the inspiration!
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I love this. Everyone is a liar it seems.
By the way, I just saw Pluto in April, and he’s doing great!
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Your description of scientists reminded me of the book Bonfire of the Humanities, which was not so much a book but a series of refutations of theories among classical scholars–it was just a big face fight. But since it was signed by two of the authors, I enjoyed reading it.
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Unfortunately, according to the current Administration, scientists are no more objective than journalists, who as we all know want nothing other than to publish fake news (because apparently there’s a dearth of real news), so you might want to rethink your career path.
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Demoting Pluto?
To a dwarf dog?
A chihuahua, perhaps.
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Oh my, say it isn’t so, not a chihuahua!
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