We live in a weird time

Today is a much better day than the past two days. Mainly because I had a startling revelation. How can I possible expect to sell fiction in a world as weird as ours. Seriously, I can make stuff up that is better than what is in the news lately. Here are a few examples: *A police lieutenant in Spokane, WA was demoted 2 pay grades to detective. This punishment will cost him about $20k per year and reduce his pension. His offense? He got caught speeding twice in less than a week. The second time he got caught, he was going over 100 mph, because he was late - get ready for it - to teach a driver's safety course. *The Vice President of the United States shot a man in the face in a hunting accident. The main witness said it was the shootee's fault even though she was over 100 yards away and thought all the commotion was because VP had a problem with his ailing heart. *The US government asked for $50 million in aid money to the Palestinians to be returned because they don't want it to go to Hamas. What did Hamas do? Uh...they got elected. Isn't that what we told them to do? "Don't blow people up, take part in the political process. Oh, you won - hmmmm. Nope, not good enough, we still won't deal with you." Does that make sense? C'mon does it? *We cannot deal with effectively with Iran's pursuing nuclear weapons, because we are still dealing with Iraq that had WMD. It's a slam dunk. Um...except they didn't really. *A man of the cloth, Pat Robertson, called for the US government to assassinate the democratic elected President, Hugo Chavez, in Venezuela. In public - on television Why? Mainly because he won't listen to the US. *The voice of the liberal left is Al Franken! Yes, Stuart Smalley is leading the charge for the opposition!! He is the Voice of America - Al Franken. *An Austrian ex-body-builder, ex-action hero is the GOVERNOR of the largest state in the county! He won by using lines from his movies! *The Rolling Stones played the Super Bowl halftime. *Bill O'Reilly is still on TV. Seriously, if I wrote this stuff you would never believe it. I wouldn't hear the end of it. Think of what you would say, "The Story has to be at least plausible" or "Now that's a stretch" or "Like that would ever happen, dude." Given that, I feel much better. I'll keep writing fiction, but I will not feel bad stretching "believability" ever again. Tags: Fiction, Online Book, Rebeleyeball, Paul Gavin Copyright (c) 2006 Paul Gavin. All rights reserved.