I think I have it all figured out:

[PCIntern]

Between the "Viva Viagra" and the "Cialis-four-hour-erection Commercials", exists a Twilight Zone consisting of dozens of these talking heads opining continuously about this so-called "Race to the White House". So they have married impotence and sports in the way that Major LEague Baseball married the camera angle of the batter awaiting the pitch with the impotence-drug-of-choice emblazoned behind him. I would love to work in my office with a big Cialis sign behind me, with the requisite guilt-by-association. Ha. Ha. Ha.

Enough hyphens. We then are forced to experience the 'meta-news' shows such as Reliable Sources with the redoubtable Howie Kurtz or the Timmy Show on Saturdays, wherein the participants, the 'cream of the crop' as it were, discuss the merits...of their own performances. This would be as if Siskel and Ebert interviewed Brando and asked him how he felt he had done in his last film. Great self-critiques are legion here, with an occasional wink as to how the 'other' network did lousy at the debate (ABC) or which network kept talking about 'exclusive' interviews with various creepy folk associated with polygamists or, worse, Congressional Republicans (CNN).

All this is leading us like cattle down the chute to the slaughter. We are going to be so hemmed in by the media that by November we are destined to be seated in our living rooms, drooling morons, awaiting the proclamations of Tweety, Brian Williams, Katie Couric, or my new personal favorite, Checkpoint Charlie Gibson. All these folks' intellectual and humanistic I.Q. (if such a measure existed) added together almost reaches three digits.

Turning off the television is not helpful; one might also say that the air is polluted so stop breathing. We are reliant upon teevee for everything including tanking-stock-quotes and white car chases in Southern California, as well as allusions to white trash starlets exiting their cars sans panties. what would we have to talk about? I am reminded of the Conservative humorist P.J. O'Rourke's comment that brains and money are not correlative: that in Beverly Hills you can find some of the dumbest people imaginable, but in Russia, where chess and philosophical discussions are spectator sports, they're boiling rocks to make soup.

We are in a whole lotta trouble. Got your flag pin?

[PCIntern]

1. Narcissistic self-kick for Sunday crowd...sorry n/t

[HereSince1628]

2. Somehow I was expecting you to critique your O.P.

It would have been a great touch.

[PCIntern]

3. You're right...I should do so.

Great job on the O.P....keep up the good work!!