Stuff in the news.

And the big news yesterday was ........ Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are getting a divorce!!! Normally I only see this sort of stuff in scandal magazines when I go to the hairdressers. This bit of scandal, however, was deemed so momentous that it appeared on the television news. Pity the poor people who, like Brad and Angelina, live their lives under constant media scrutiny. As if going through divorce was not bad enough, you have all the pundits speculating on they whys and wherefores of your case.

And then there are the children, six of them in this case. Speculation is going on as to whether Daddy Brad will fight for sole custody, joint custody or just visiting rights. Of course, these are not ordinary children in a divorce case. They must have got used to the fact that both Mummy Angelina and Daddy Brad go off from time to time to make films or to do charity work. Surely they have grown accustomed to being cared for by highly qualified, and probably highly paid, professionals. So, personally, I am not too worried about them. Just as I don't worry about the children of the rich and famous having odd names like River and Summer. They are far less likely to be teased and laughed at in their schools than the little Rivers and Summers off the council estates.

Susan Sarandon, a great campaigner for all sorts of causes, had a go at CNN for their massive coverage of the Brangelina divorce. What got her goat as well was the fact that they ignored another shooting of a black guy by police, this one apparently not responding fast enough to their commands alongside his broken down car in Tulsa. Thank goodness our police don't carry guns as a matter of course. Who knows what might have happened to the chap who apparently had his windscreen smashed in by an irate policeman recently, somewhere in the London area I think?

Still with the news, I read about a food waste supermarket in Leeds. I think this works by organisations collecting food that supermarkets are throwing out because it's close to its sell-by date and then putting it on sale at much reduced prices. In this case, people pay what they can, what they think the food is worth, or just by offering some kind of service. Apparently supermarkets throw out £230 million worth of still edible food.

Here's a link to an article about it.

The irony is that, at least in the version I read online, the article was interspersed with adverts for diamond jewellery, at a bargain price of course.

What makes the media magicians who decide who to target with which products think I might be interested in diamonds?