So, What Shut Me Up?

I haven’t written a blog in the past two weeks. Rather, I haven’t published a blog in a couple of weeks. The ones I wrote are just sitting in a file on my computer, getting more and more stale each day.

The events in Washington and the rest of the world are just coming too fast, and what was true yesterday seems almost irrelevant today.

It’s like a punishment from the News Gods, where all the bright shiny objects we have learned to pay attention to have suddenly become really worth paying attention to. 

Who would have thought that Stormy Daniels was turning into Monica Lewinsky, or that Donald Trump really held the secret to settling the crisis in Korea and ending a police action that started there in 1950, when the army of North Korea invaded its neighbor to the south.

Of course, we don’t know what will happen with Stormy or with the prospects for peace in Korea. Still, those things seem more solid than Trump’s big beautiful wall that Mexico will pay for. possibly with a special tariff of $50 a head in illegal immigrants coming across the border.

Now the trouble with the media and the people who consume it is that they and we can’t pay attention to more than two or three things at once. And, the bigger an event gets, the harder it is for us to understand.

You know that Louisiana still hasn’t recovered from the last hurricane to hit it? Puerto Rico too. And even some parts of Florida and a batch of islands in the Caribbean, and California from the fires and mudslides. And our infrastructure is still getting older and bridges are breaking down, and health care still isn’t available to many people in our country.

Pop quiz. How many people have been indicted in the probe by the special prosecutor? Extra points if you can name them. And, a big bonus if you can remember just what they were indicted for. (hint - it was reported in several major newspapers across the country).

Now, how many of them have pleaded guilty.

And, tell me, what, precisely, has Congress done to stop the slaughter of innocent people by demented killers with assault rifles? Yes, it’s a trick question. And, hopes and prayers are not the answer.

So, can you blame me? There is a breathless rush to report an off-year Congressional race next Tuesday in a district in eastern Pennsylvania that won’t even exist the next time voters cast ballots. Yet it is being analyzed to death, and figures show that as of Feb. 21, Connor Lamb has raised $3,3 million, compared to $700,000 for Rick Saccone.

Pop quiz. Which one of them is the Democrat and which is the Republican?

So, short and sweet, can you blame me for spiking all the blogs I have been working on for the past two weeks? Whatever I write about becomes old news before I can re-read it and publish it. (Yes, I still look for mistakes before I put something up for the public, an old habit I just can’t get rid of, and really don’t want to.)

Well, there’s talk of another storm coming up the east coast, and new insights into the looming debt of 666 Fifth Avenue, and a new policy for our military in some nation in the Middle East. And, is Syria really using poison gas on its own people, and is Russia still poisoning its critics in London?

Better get this out fast, before something really important happens.