Tucked away at Acorn as we are, we have to make a special effort to get news from outside—real news, I mean, not rumors, and not the “news bullets” that purport to tell us all that we need to know in flashy pictures and quick, witty, verbal one-two punches. Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights. Bullets are cheap and full of big dramatic pictures. Some bullets are true virtuals that allow people to experience—safely—hurricanes, epidemics, fires, and mass murder. Hell of a kick.
