Internet needs less Saddam and Britney, more UFOs

By Burt Constable
Daily Herald Editorial Columnist
Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007

Saddam Hussein can’t drop dead without a cell phone camera recording his demise and a post-mortem sequel for distribution on the Internet.

Britney Spears can’t totter through one night as a trollop without photographic evidence popping up the Internet.

YouTube.com has video of a costumed Tigger appearing to punch a teen in the face at Walt Disney World.

Little kids can’t drink from hoses, fat people can’t sit in spindly chairs, old ladies can’t get off poorly docked boats, and dads holding pinatas can’t get hit in the crotch without cameras capturing the hilarity for TV’s “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”

You can’t even go to work without a camera recording you filling up with gas, buying coffee, running a yellow light, zipping through a toll booth or entering your office.

But search the Internet for a clip of the UFO reported hovering Nov. 7 above O’Hare International Airport, and you come up empty.

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