If You Don't read The Newspaper For A Couple Of Days You Can Feel The Brain Cells Returning To Life

Gosh my bullshit detector is almost at null. I had the weekend away from the news and I had Monday off. I feel like myself again. I don't feel afraid of terrorists, I don't feel fat, I have no idea what Paris Hilton is up to. Even moreso, my sense of what is important has returned to me. Paris Hilton is in small print, the loss of 380 tons of explosives is in bold face.

I have nothing to critique here. Nobody called anybody a hero in the past three days. My sense that killing people is wrong, even if they're brown and live far away, is still here. My intuition that our current President is unqualified is intact. (Perhaps that's the greatest bullshit going these days. In spite of the visceral knowledge that he's a mess there's people out there who would try and tell you otherwise. Bullshit!) So for now my detection skillz are waning.

I'm sure the next week will provide more bullshit than women have Louis Vuitton bags. Perhaps I should save my energy. Ashlee Simpson can sing, 380 tons of missing explosives really isn't any worse than 120 tons of missing explosives, George Bush is good for America. You'll see.