No One Looks For the Homely Girls
 

With the Amber alert's famous invention, missing persons are shown more often on television.   Pictures of the missing and the suspected abductors march along hopefully, sometimes bleeding into one another as they are flashed quickly before yet another commercial break.
 

The troubling part is the pause as we dutifully study(or feign studiousness of) the photos.  After a respectful pause, if left too long on screen the absentees are subject to our modern attention spans.
"She has a big nose"  "Wow, look at that hair"  "That guy certainly looks like no good."  "Whoa, can you say Ax murderer?"  "She has awful teeth."  "That girl looks way older than fifteen."
 

But the worst is:
"Oh, that's awful! She's so cute!"
 
 

-- G 'Bye, Sonya --

. ( 20.7.04 ) .