Irene has come and gone, and i am left with some thoughts and feelings about her visit, mostly, disappointment in our media, some elected officials and government regulated industries. Sometime on Friday afternoon i tuned into CNN, you know, for the news; what i found is what, intellectually, i guess i should have expected to find - non stop coverage of the approaching Hurricane. What, in effect could have handled effectively on Headline New Network as a 2 minute story (this is the expected path of the Hurricane, these are potential effects of the Hurricane in your greater metropolitan area, take these precautions, tune into the Weather Channel or weather.com for more local details ) became useless and mind-numbing chatter for 50 minutes of every hour. Libya's government had been overthrown, there remained a famine in Somalia, Greece and the United States were still not raising enough tax dollars to pay their bills...and all of the issues were complicated, with no resolutions o...