"Frankly, my dear...."

I monitor the www.cnn.com online poll with some regularity and am generally pleasantly surprised to find that I agree with 83% of respondents on whether it's unpatriotic to question the president's Iraq policy with troops in the field, 74% of folks on whether Bush & Co. manipulated the pre-war intel and 96% of pollees on whether the gov. is doing enough to reduce the nation's dependence on oil....

But sometimes they throw me for a loop.

"Were you surprised that Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey announced they had split up?
Yes
No
or View Results"

I don't care. I DON'T CARE. I've heard of one of these two people. The other I don't know from Napoleon or Pontius Pilate and in any case they both live thousands of miles away, I will never meet them, they will never have any discernible effect on my life and I just couldn't care less.

Are we as a nation suprised? Were we as a nation paying such close attention? Did we have them staked out, watching, waiting, anticipating the moment the Jacko jury foreman would come forward and say.... OJ Simpson is innocent and to prove it they've found the real killer The Juice's been looking for all these years, he was hiding with the second gunman and bigfoot in the Bermuda Triangle....

Sorry folks, I was paying attention to the war in Iraq that has my buddies on the line, havoc in the Gulf states, earthquakes, tsunamis, starvation, lions and tigers and bears and stuff that.

As interesting as it may be voyeuristically watching the lives of others, and remember I was an Anthropology major, I get to see my very own life every morning in the mirror and it gives me enough hassles I don't need to recreationally go looking for more. I've got enough challenges with my own romantic life, or lack thereof, such that I'll not waste my time on over-fluffed L.A. poodle-people.