Targeting Cuba

 

Actual headline from CNN´s site just now: "Hurricane Melissa restrengthens to Category 4 as it targets Cuba". Of course, hurricanes don´t have consciousness and hence cannot target anyone. 

Note the interesting discrepancy between describing a hurricane as a raging storm-god and claiming that cars just automatically drive into crowds with no conscious control whatsoever. Why are hurricanes ascribed agency, while cars are not (and their drivers and *their* agency are quietly forgotten)? 

It´s almost as if some political agenda is being spun here. But what the heck do I know, I mean, it´s all just metaphors or bad headlines, right? Nothing to see here, move along...