Lima, Peru is now the home of South America’s first Starbucks.
China is becoming infested with giant gerbils.
And closer to home, the Energy Department will lead a “sweeping investigation” to figure out why New York and much of the upper midwest lost power last week.
When the lights went out in the Big Apple, the TV news networks went nuts with their coverage, and even Newsweek devoted a special issue to the blackout.
I’m sure it was a pain in the ass, but c’mon. People were without lights and AC for a while. Big deal. If all those media types weren’t based in New York, the story wouldn’t have been nearly as big. As The Onion put it in a recent faux headline, “Blackout Survivors Tell Stories Of Harrowing Inconvenience.”