Current Events Suck

Read about Charlie Sheen, make the jump to Alec Baldwin, waiver between breaking news of Lindsey Lohan and one of the Kardashian sisters, feel vaguely ill so I switch to the NCAA page to look at the Final Four bracket, realize it will take more time, go back to regular home page, you get the idea. I almost never give a flip about celebrity gossip or a lot of what passes for news, so why have I been wasting time on this?

Ahh, because the alternative is to keep scrolling with horror through the pictures from Japan.

I am not a conspiracy theorist or a predictor of the end times, but this year is sure shaping up to be a crazy one. Birds falling out of the sky on New Year's Eve, a serious of earthquakes, including those in the county that borders mine, massive unrest in the Middle East, political idiocy run rampant in the US, floods and tsunami, this year is hopefully not the precursor to the end of the world in 2012 as predicted.

And if it is going to end in 2012, please for the love of chocolate and all things holy, let it be before I have to listen to Michelle Bachman run for president.