Archive for March, 2009

You’ve Got to Be Kidding

March 31, 2009

I wasn’t having a good time to begin with. Fiddling with weird proxy server phenomenon isn’t entertaining. Then, in an effort to see the extent of the problem, I pulled up the cnn.com website. Unfortunately, the proxy server found it.

At the top of the page, a photo of a mom who’d starved her son to death, right alongside this incredibly delightful list:

  • 5-year-old’s beheading came ‘out of the blue’
  • Grieving mother: ‘They cut his heart out’
  • House OKs sweeping national service bill
  • Mediterranean is sea of death for hundreds
  • Evicted homeowner who shot herself dies
  • Angry French workers take bosses hostage
  • Ticker: Obama takes heat from big supporter
  • Ford exec: No thanks, Uncle Sam
  • Childcare, kids suffer in recession
  • Boy went for bubble gum, met a killer
  • Watch: Freshman reps on tour, taxes, Twitter
  • Is Twitter getting too big, too fast?
  • Toddler falls 3 stories to strangers’ arms
  • Naked pole vaulter runs city’s streets
  • Baby alligator wanders into house, bites guy
  • 12-foot python puts squeeze on reporter
  • Make cnn.com your home page the link said at the top of the news box.

    You’ve got to be kidding.