"Swept" away!

It's the merry, merry month of May, or as our friends in TV news like to call it.."sweeps month" And boy are they after those ratings! This is one of the most important rating periods for local TV, and you can tell. How? Well, EVERYTHING is a major crisis......EVERY single news item is BREAKING NEWS! EVERYTHING is being investigated! EVERY story has TEAM COVERAGE! EVERY story gets BIG coverage!(why are these people yelling at us?) One of the more recent screaming matches occurred over THE ECONOMY! The TV folk convinced us we were headed for, or already in a depression. And then...SURPRISE!...we were. Even more recent were the gazillions of stories about the SWINE FLU! WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF A PANDEMIC! RUN FOR THE HILLS! (or at least your nearest drug store)

Please.

You really don't need a calendar these days. Just turn on your TV, and if they are running a special investigative report on the secret sex life of love bugs...it's May! (or November)