Out of touch
I am embarrassed that the current U.S. Attorney General has been in office for four months and I just right now learned who he was.
Apparently he took office Nov. 9, which, if I recall correctly, was about the time I was coming back from Amsterdam. It was cold and gray a lot then. I remember not paying much attention to the news, for me -- California hadn’t totally burned down the month before, and I was getting back into the swing of that grueling twelve-hour week (yeah, I know, but I spend a lot of time in transit). Somehow, it just slipped beneath my notice.
This is just one example. There’s a lot I haven’t been following too closely -- for example, I forget which state besides Texas held its Presidential primaries this week. I don’t like that. I like knowing, for example, who the House majority leader is (his name looks like it should rhyme with “stoner.” Heh heh). I like being able to talk intelligently about the -- oh dammit, I just named the OLD majority leader, the one that was in office before the Democrats regained their House majority! God damn it! Steny Hoyer, I’m sorry. It’s the lack of NPR, I think, that has done it.
This must stop here. I read the news all the time, but apparently I have lost the touch I had with my country’s current events. I need to regain it.
Apparently he took office Nov. 9, which, if I recall correctly, was about the time I was coming back from Amsterdam. It was cold and gray a lot then. I remember not paying much attention to the news, for me -- California hadn’t totally burned down the month before, and I was getting back into the swing of that grueling twelve-hour week (yeah, I know, but I spend a lot of time in transit). Somehow, it just slipped beneath my notice.
This is just one example. There’s a lot I haven’t been following too closely -- for example, I forget which state besides Texas held its Presidential primaries this week. I don’t like that. I like knowing, for example, who the House majority leader is (his name looks like it should rhyme with “stoner.” Heh heh). I like being able to talk intelligently about the -- oh dammit, I just named the OLD majority leader, the one that was in office before the Democrats regained their House majority! God damn it! Steny Hoyer, I’m sorry. It’s the lack of NPR, I think, that has done it.
This must stop here. I read the news all the time, but apparently I have lost the touch I had with my country’s current events. I need to regain it.