PRIORITIES, PLEASE
Everywhere we turn, it's Hurricane Isabel this and Hurricane Isabel that. All the news outlets are going with near wall-to-wall coverage on her, and The Weather Channel is considering changing its name to The Isabel Is Coming, Run Screaming Through The Streets Channel. Even NASCAR is expressing concern over the course of the storm.
Quite frankly, all this alarmist coverage is typical of how the media often becomes obsessed with a single topic and then covers it to death. Okay, granted, Isabel is a category 5 storm comparable to Hugo, Andrew, and Camille. Lives will undoubtedly be lost, and property damage could easily run into the billions.
But is this reason enough for mass hysteria? No, of course not. It needs to kept in perspective, for there are other far more serious crises in this world of ours to worry about.
For example, word is that Ben and J.Lo have broken up.

TOGETHER AGAIN, UNNATURALLY

----------Steve Breen, San Diego Union-Tribune