You know what I mean. The headlines – the media frenzy – the rumors and the backlash. Sometimes I’ll be scrolling through my RSS feed and read a headline and be like, “Oh this is gonna be good,” but then I read the article and it might as well be telling what the journalist had for lunch, it’s so boring. Or take these examples…

Octuplet’s Mom’s Son Rushed To The Hospital!! – Or – Infamous Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman made the parental decision to call the paramedics Friday night because her two year, Caleb, old drank some liquid from one of the older boy’s volcano kits and consequently threw up. I read this much to my husband who said, “Don’t those kids usually just involve salt water and baking soda?” But as parents we could understand why it’s better to play it safe than sorry. Suleman comments in the people.com article, “I knew it would all get blown out of proportion if I called, but I didn’t want to take any chances,” Suleman tells PEOPLE. “I think I did the right thing. He’s okay.”

Seriously – what won’t kids put in their mouths? And yes she did the right thing – I’m not one to say nice things about this woman, but to be honest, I’m not one to mention her at all if I can help it – the media does that enough for me – but from one mom to another, I think we can all agree it’s better to be safe than sorry, right? Of course the mixture turned out to contain mostly salt water and the boy is absolutely fine now. And the media got their mini frenzy.

How about this one?

Why Amazon Went Big Brother on some Kindle e-Books – My husband emailed me this article from Ars Technica. We’d just been talking about Kindle the other day and how the book industry may or may not be dying and how e-books may or may not have anything to do with it. And I mentioned at one point that the books on the Kindle, being on Amazon’s server and not your own, bothered me. So when Dan read this article about how Amazon recently deleted many, many copy’s of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm without much explanation at all – well he figured I’d be interested. So I read the article, which was written by someone who clearly likes to “write pretty” for himself, but whatever – what I learned was that the two books in question were added by a 3rd party who did not have rights to the book – the publisher in question typically deals with public domain books and at this point in time 1984 and Animal Farm are not public domain. So I’m thinking – so what? Amazon in my mind was legally bound to do what they did. And sure there was some legal jargon that blah blah blah, seriously? It was illegal, they took care of it. They probably could have better explained themselves to the public but it’s really not the salacious story that the media and many online bloggers are now trying to make it out to be. The End.

What are your thoughts? Read any good headlines lately (ones that were maybe better than the stories themselves)? Any thoughts on the two bits of news I shared? Feel free to disagree with me, that’s what opinions are for – being different. 🙂