I'd never known that weather reporting could go ...on and on and on ... for sooooo long.

No kidding. I can't watch much of the local news for that reason. Out of one and a half hours of news in the evening, 45 minutes of it has to be weather, no exagerations. The rest is constantly repeated soundbites on local events. I can count on my hand the number of times they've indicated that there was another country besides the US. The national program isn't much better. I think the last time I heard news from home was when a former prime minister died a few months ago. You would think the all news channels would be better, but they really aren't. I'm all for recycling, but not endlessly in the news.

So I get most of my news online, hard as it is to take some days.

Still depressed and angry about the destruction of ancient statuary by the Taliban in Afghanistan. No more news for today... I'm off to clear more snow.

Ali