Collapse!!Wait I need a mocha latte!!

[Pharaoh]

...and I'll need extra foam for this one!

http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/386/



If the headlines are all about Spitzer's call girl and what Hillary said about Obama now and Heath Ledger's will and Britney Spears' latest day in court and who's left on American Idol...this keeps me from having to look at and deal with climate change and the polar bears eating their young and the banks collapsing and how it costs $60 to fill up my tank...because I have no answers and it is too painful and scary to think about it in order to try to find the answers.

The fix is obviously going to require me to change, and I don't want to change...I'm afraid of change...what does it ask of me...what does it take from me...nope...look--the experts on TV say in between the bad news that all I have to do is Live Claritin Clear so I can breathe freely and drink Promise activTM SuperShotsTMand the evil cholesterol falls off of me and I drive off in my Prius with my iPhone and life is good.

We've had problems before...the oil embargo of the 70's...Vietnam...how about WWII and the Great Depression?? We've had El Nino for years. We've gotten through it then, we'll get through it now...besides...I have to get my entry in to win $75,000 for a healthy new me on the Food Network...bye-bye.

People are not stupid...just programmed...hours and hours every day of watching TV/computer programming...ironic, isn't it?

And indeed, I feel the energy of the focus on the election and whatever scandal is up at the moment...anything but what is really going on. I find that my eyes glaze over it all now. And it feels lonely. The deception was far more entertaining.