Evening Reading

thursday and friday, and maybe longer, i have to take the bus from bothell to redmond. >:(

until i can somehow swing a new car :(

Fuck I hate the media, and how easily it flexes for corperate felatio.

Sydney, Australia yesterday receives an anthrax scare, in none other than that fine chain of 'family restaurants' called McDonalds. You know the deal. Letters mailed to a handful of stores around the city and suburbs, laced with the cliched 'mysterious white powder'.

Anyways - McDonalds, being the ever honest, community and customer well-being focused company that they are, managed to cut down the official news article to a mere 20 seconds; frontlined by the McDonald's CEO of Australia, preaching a pre-fabricated response to a TV news camera via queue cards he held in front of himself.

Pathetic. I find it amusing how he stated that their customer's and staff's well being, health and safety are their forefront of priorities, yet they actually sell that shit they call food. I dunno whats a bigger health hazard, McDonalds' food, or anthrax.

Anyways - my point of this poorly structured rant is that clearly some money has been slid under the table in exchange for the media not slamming McDonald's fine name all over the screen and radio. 20 seconds. Maybe a small paragraph in the newspaper. Thats it. I consider it a fairly big safety issue to the general public, and it should have deserved alot more attention - but it didn't.

I saw three McDonald's stores this afternoon - all swarming with the same beligerant consumers who need their daily fix of rendered pig-fat and cardboard laced foodstuffs - or whatever the fuck it is McDonald's is legally entitled to call that shit. All stuffing it into their acne ridden cake holes, whilist their obese six-year-old children reach their chubby hands out for more, and scream uncontrollably because their happy meal didn't feature the plastic toy manufactured by their Malaysian and Filipino friends in McDonald's fine chains of virtual sweat shops.

What a fine world we live in. Where profits and corperate greed comes first and foremost ahead of human need. No - this isn't hinged upon any paranoia of an anthrax outbreak - as clearly it was a hoax - it's a rant about the lurid tactics McDonald's has cleary employed to keep this potentially damaging situation out of the public eye.

And you know what ? It probably wouldn't even matter if it created bill-board sized warnings, as not only would they go unseen and unheard - but they'd no doubt generate more advirtising and potential customers to one of the planet's finest globalised corperations.

Hooray for McDonalds. Their domination continues. Long live their ignorant, blind and brainless consumers.