Monday, March 30, 2015

The Heir feels for the victims' families of the crashed flight {#4U9525}, and that it's a tragedy, but he wants to remind people that this is a freak instance statistically.  As far as he knows, air travel is still the safest form of travel, in terms of yearly casualties.  Statistically, cars are the worst.  Now, improving accommodations on flights is something the airlines can work on, the Heir thinks, even on short flights, so that the passengers don't have to retain their cynicism about being sardine-canned on airplanes just for that extra 10% in margins the airlines want to make.  The Heir doesn't want to make this a discussion for a Bachelor episode on audio, because he doesn't think that substantively there's much to discuss.  Investigators have determined that the crash was caused by a co-pilot with emotional problems, period, as far as the Heir's concerned.  So he doesn't think that in week 2 there should be this much coverage of the co-pilot as kind of a soap opera.  The Heir counts his lucky stars he went with audio for the information, because doubtless now 24 hour networks on visual are like round-the-clock co-pilot's problems.  Of course now they can't say that the airplane ended up in a black hole, but it seems like their brains did.  So the Heir's question is, why don't they ditch talking about the co-pilot in favor of something more relevant?  Like essentials economics?  And whether or not young adults need to be sexually active by a certain age?

"It's not that important of an issue, visual.  Talk about essential economics instead!"

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