All the World's a Stage...

... and it's amusing in all the wrong ways. Faced with a presidential election without the guidance of Jon Stewart, I'm now relying on the wacky biases of MSNBC (sorry CNN, they just have more colorful people over there), Late Night with Stephen Colbert, and the occasional John Oliver rant to inform my admittedly liberal views.

Well, that and personal experience and reflection. I don't need anyone to tell me that cable news is filled with spin and an utter inability to objectively report current events. Modern journalism is no longer a sacred bastion of truth. It's more about how things "feel" and how people "interpret" events, rather than cutting the crap, checking facts, and finding the truth. And I get why that is. I get it, because facts aren't necessarily interesting, and you can only have so many people simultaneously telling the truth before it gets redundant. I get that these info-outlets need to distinguish themselves with personality and character in order to draw ratings, and that entails various stages of embellishment, bias, and bullshit. 

So I get that TV viewers are fucked when it comes to getting any sense of what's real anymore. I only recently came back to watching TV, and holy crap, it's just... so...

Sigh...