good morning america vs. nbc today

well it turns out upon arriving home from work at around 330am or 4am there is good morning america and nbc today to choose from... roker is still there after all these years and he's lost a lot of weight.... driving a taxi -- it's hard to get motivated to move around and keep weight off.... especially after not being able to sleep more than 6 hours sometimes... roker should have a good nest egg built up by this time unless he has a chronic gambling/partying problem

in general, both shows have a similar line-up... fox news was preferable becoz it's mostly devoted to commentary whereas these morning news shows are more a pastiche of the usual insane news items like random shootings and feel-good stuff like alligator zoo-keepers....... the best thing by far was on nbc today -- and it was shown as repeat at around 1030am here so saw it after sleep.... they had one woman talking to two women and a guy -- all on big stools, about creepy or cute: policeman writes ticket and asks for date and suchlike -- that was highly entertaining...... some of it just is different target audience stuff

on another channel they had some english news about some congolese family in london that had subjected kids to torture coz they thought they were practicing witchcraft -- it raised interesting questions about the limits of our science of psychiatry and our western legal system....... becoz these people were from such an alien culture and believed deeply in witchcraft

in fact, africa has a long history of witchcraft and the writer actually believes not all of it is superstition, some of it is actually bona-fide black magic..... which is to say that african black magicians can make rain and perform other acts of black magic and it's all real - it's not just shizophrenia......... it will be interesting to see africa's evolution as the world evolves and how africa will integrate with the rest of the world...... africans are already world leaders in elementary rhythm and body movement

other unusual cases in the media lately, of note, regarding crime and mental illness was the mass-murdering norwegian guy --- in america and china, a guy like this gets the death penalty and there is no speculating he was mentally ill and therefore had diminished responsibility... in a great many western democracies -- there is so much 'liberalism' that glaring hypocrisies arise, like calling the norwegian guy a schizo -- however, psychiatrists will generally affirm that chronic psychosis sufferers are unable to organize and carry out detailed and intricate plans like the norwegian guy did.... therefore while the norwegian guy was a nut and a socio-path, he technically could not have been suffering from severe psychosis elsewise he could not have been so meticulous... generally meticulous killers like this are considered monsters.....

there is still no tupperguddy on sports channel