So I left Alaska about a month ago striketo embark upon a violent, multi-time zone bender/strike a prolonged vacation, happy in the knowledge that the de-Palinization of the state would be more or less complete when I returned. Between strikeblackouts/strike stays with various wings of the family, I avoided most news sources, with the exception perhaps of a few unendurable moments of Wolf Blitzer that I accidentally watched while trying to find a href="http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Man_v_Food"Man v. Food/a. Had it not been for the impending arrival of the Farley Heiresses, I would have avoided the internet completely during that time. So while I'm told that a significant fraction of the news media felt compelled for some reason to continue talking about Sarah Palin, my life has been comfortably unperturbed for the past four weeks; I didn't even bother to read her farewell address, though about a thousand people e-mailed me with links to William Shatner's brilliant rendition of a speech that I imagine was composed between huffs of gold spraypaint.br /br /All of this I mention only to try to remind myself why an attitude of Zen-like detachment is vastly preferable to a href="http://alaskareport.com/news39/x71283_divorce_palins.htm"caring about stories like this/a, which -- like nearly everything regarding the Palins' private lives -- is plausible enough, but holy shit, why bother anymore? I mean, there's a guy on the teevee who eats chocolate-covered bacon and hamburgers pinned between grilled cheese sandwiches, and yet some people would rather talk about the former governor of Alaska. Weird.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-6881645905904524497?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div
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