In Hawaii on a bus. Bus stops, school children get out. Impatient tourists floor their rental car. I ignored the talk because I can't mentally handle violence. Finally got out to have a cigarette and realized that people from the bus were actually taking pictures of the bodies. I started grabbing cameras and ripping film out. When people started running from me, I grabbed cameras and destroyed them. You want violence porn, I'll show you damn violence.

Police come. More police come. Tourists start yelling about me and what I did. Cop comes over. Cuffs me and puts me into a car. Cop drives off toward Honolulu. Says, don't worry, as soon as I can pull over, I'll get you out of those cuffs.

Then he drove me back to my hotel.

Got on a bus the next day, started to pull my pass. Drivers says, just get on, dude, all the drivers know what you did. I was very recognizable at that time.

Couple of days later, I got on a bus. Driver was Hawaiian, asked me to stand next to him. Told me the people from the slum north of the airport were throwing a party on the weekend and they would really like me to come. I was the only white there.

America is not about standards. We are free wheeling, let it all hang out, do whatever feels good, suits your fancy, live in the moment, buy on credit, fast food, me me me, freedom lov'n Americans!

Feel proud that you have helped redefine that stodgy old fashion journalistic anachronism into modern blog free style bloviation!

The only bad thing is I had to look up the word 'bloviating” and I regret to say that I may be a bloviator myself.

Yeah, not that there is not an incredible amount of “bloviating” right here on this liberal blog site.

Oh, I don't know. Compared to a good proportion of news sites, TMV is usually fairly tame in that regard.

I agree with Joe, in the desire to see news outlets actually focus on quality and respect of individuals involved in stories rather than the race to break stories and perspectives as has become the modus operandi as of late. I don't need to see explicit tales of victims' reactions when the reporters don't even know how to portray the broader picture of the event itself.

This is why, to some extent, I prefer gathering my news online versus watching anything on television. I can skip the flashy tabloid-esque exposes and instead focus more intently on the actual facts at hand. Plus, I don't have to wait for those commercial breaks right before the Big Details are finally explained in the last segment of the show. Bleh.