By Judith Gayle | Political Waves
It’s been a good week for titillating political factoids, now that Obama’s robust debate performance has put campaigning back on an even keel. These funky little events are like mushrooms, sprouting up everywhere we look, ripe for the picking, tasty with sound bites. I’ve gathered a few in my cyber-basket.
If we collect enough of them, sorting them into clumps of like kind, they turn into puzzle pieces for the larger picture. And by the way, titillating is a titillating word, isn’t it? (I’m pretty sure it’s the ‘tit’ part.) Things HAVE to be titillating if they’re going to grab our attention in the great soup of infotainment, opinion and conjecture we have substituted for news in the 21st century.
For instance, I learned this week that it’s possible that Britney Spears dabbled significantly in crystal meth. Surprised, are you? Flabbergasted by such a turn of events? And how does this inform the larger picture? Well, that MIGHT explain her shaving her head as a public event, losing her parental rights along with career cred and even suffering parental conservatorship.
Some of these things are so obvious that they should be self-explanatory to sentient beings, don’t you think? I mean, is anyone REALLY shocked about the Boy Scouts’ secret files, exposing decades of sexual abuse? In both instances, the only thing that I find shocking is that anyone actually is.
Back to our ‘shroom harvest, let’s start with the pious little religious mushrooms, shall we?