Now that I've lost enough weight to be able to fit into most of my skirts, I went to the mall last night to buy some pantyhose. Pantyhose is so expensive! Since I haven't worn a short skirt and hose in ages, I forgot how much the stuff costs. A pair of DKNY Ultra Sheer hose, the best hose for dressy short black outfits, costs $17.

I spent five minutes contemplating whether I really needed to spend $17 on a pair of pantyhose, but I rationalized the expense and told myself DKNY is the best and lasts a long time. I can't believe I used to have to wear pantyhose every day, and had to buy the stuff constantly.

I needed to buy four more pairs, but settled on only the brands that were on sale like Nine West or Calvin Klein. Even on sale the hose still cost about $5-6 per pair, but at least they were cheaper than the $17 DKNY pair.

Strangely enough, there were sale signs in every window of almost every store. It makes me think that retailers aren't doing that well, and are desperate to lure shoppers by having sales. I don't remember March being a big sales month. Desperate mall retailers is not a good sign.

Disturbing news from the New York Post about Iraqi soldiers found with gas masks and nerve agent antidotes on them, CAPTURED FOES FOUND WITH CHEM-WAR GEAR.

I'm trying to find articles on the e-bomb the US military used to knockout the Iraqi television station. The e-bomb is supposedly an electromagnetic pulse bomb, which shorts out everything than runs on electronics in its range. Remember that series on Fox called "Dark Angel"? In that show, the modern world was wiped out by an electromagnetic pulse. There was an e-bomb type device used in the new movie remake of "Oceans 11" with George Clooney and Brad Pitt. And in the movie "The Matrix", Morpheus said an electromagnetic pulse was the only thing that could kill those giant metal squids that were attacking the ship.

Interesting article from the The UK Sun Online how the biased the BBC's coverage of the war is, BBC's own man blasts his bosses over 'bias' . I always thought the BBC was very unbiased, but not according to this Sun reporter.

Here's an excerpt:

In one blast, he storms: “Who dreamed up the line that the coalition are achieving ‘small victories at a very high price?’

“The truth is exactly the opposite.

“The gains are huge and the costs still relatively low. This is real warfare, however one-sided, and losses are to be expected.”

This war on Iraq seems to be as much a war of words and propaganda as it is a war of military campaigns. The real time coverage of the war and the fractured reported is so weird. I'm not sure you can get a good picture of what's really going on with the war. All I can deduce from watching coverage is every reporter has a point of view and agenda, and that no one is objective.

I thought news was supposed to objective, but watching the war coverage by the american and foreign media it is obviously not. Even the BBC, which is supposedly famous for being the most objective media organization in the world, has an obvious anti-american bias.

And what's worse, the war coverage brings out the worse in the news reporting. The coverage has been on the bad news, the newsworthy stories, the sensationalist aspects of the war.

The truth of the war is out there somewhere, but it's definitely not coming from either the american or the foreign media. I am an intense lover of spin, but the spin on the war is just a bit too much for me.

I think this 24/7 war coverage will really make people take a second look at objective news coverage, and what that means or doesn't mean. My trust in both the american and foreign media diminishes daily.