Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Thursday, January 05, 2006


If my blog mattered (as if blogs matter) and I had comments I'd soon have to defend myself for having wasted my first four posts on show-biz trivia and having ignored the day's lead story. But because something's newsworthy doesn't make it comment-worthy. I could pull the gag the Professor and his legions of imitators pull:

Ariel Sharon had a massive stroke.

...but to what purpose? We all know the news; it's merely a restatement of the obvious.

And then there are the many times I butt against my own infinite ignorance. Yesterday I wanted to post on the allegation that Fidel ordered JFK's assassination, but I couldn't come up with a quickie; what's more I'd be entering a world of conspiracy theories, a world like the GET-A-LIFE!s', a world I wouldn't want to be warped into. The allegation seems credible -- Fidel and RFK had an intense love affair involving cigars and pens -- but it's forty-two years old, and it's history as hobby, and I think I have better use for my space, like complaining of airhead celebrities.

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