Is there any end in sight?

A Senior View

By Ed Lyons

(Updated: Friday, April 25, 2008, 5:01 PM)

Talk about reality shows on the tube.

How about the news programs?

Each night (I watch the nighttime news; I can't take that kind of stuff to early in the morning) it seems like the report is trying to outdo the night before.

A bigger mass murder; land mines in the schoolyard; the race for $4 gas (you know California is going win); ball player's bonus and salary exceeds the entire income generated by either league throughout the '30s and '40s.

Is there no end to all this media excitement?

And some of the plot twists!

How about the one where a guy attacks a cop with a baseball bat?

The cop sustains a serious head wound and still manages to shoot his attacker dead.

The manufacturer of the baseball bat is being sued.

But at the top of the list of ridiculous scenarios has to be what our government has done in the last 24 hours.

Currently, the script is approaching the unbelievable. The government gives people money, but also spends $42 million to tell them.

Now someone wants to cancel the gasoline tax, which will mean less money going into the general fund and more room for the oil companies to increase their prices without increasing the public panic.

And how about the race for presidency? It has everything--race, gender and old age.

Take your pick, controversy looms behind each selection. It's a golden opportunity for the voter to be wrong, no matter what the choice it.

The only saving factor is that no matter how convoluted the American lifestyle becomes, it's still better than everyone else's.

Grandpa sez: "Some people are so addicted to exaggeration...that they can tell the truth without lying!"