The PandaCam is part of the non-essential government services, and has gone dark while the nation descends into its Hobbesian nightmare. But there's a note on the page: "Sponsored by the Ford Motor Company Fund."
It would be amusing to go back in time, sit down with Henry Ford, and explain how some day his company's philanthropy would be directed to let people watch pandas on an "electronic window" on their desk. Probably not an outcome he expected when he was tinkering with his first engine. If this goes well, no one in the world will be more than a few simple steps away from glimpsing playful, monochrome ursinity. Anyway, it looks like this now. AKA, the same as it does at night, right?
HIGHWAY FRACAS Here's the LiveLeak description:
That's one way of introducing the video. If that's all one read, you might conclude it's a case of Evil SUV vs. bikers out exercising their right to share the road. But! The note adds an update about additional info, which goes to this Daily Mail story: The driver who was chased and beaten up in front of his wife and child by a pack of motorcyclists after trying to run over them in his SUV
This automatically discredits the information in the eyes of some people, since the Daily Fail - ha ha, get it - cannot be trusted any more than Faux News. I'll grant that the Mail's piece is borderline illiterate:
But that seems to be what happened. Here's the Daily News tale, which seems to be different today than it was yesterday:
What difference does his income make? Are we supposed to feel a little better, knowing that his income did not insulate him from random violence, or that his income level had produced the requisite callousness that enabled him to "flee" after striking another biker? I seem to remember that this was the original tone of the headline yesterday:
Bit different, isn't it?
