Circling the Drain...

...that's what the news feels like these days; all the headlines, the stock market, the presidential election race, the housing market, the gas prices, the credit markets, the weather disasters, Long Island. There has to be some good news out there because everyone around me is faking it. Times are tough and everyone is ducking their head in the sand; nobody thinks we can fix America. Thank goodness for the celebrity dysfunction, without which there would be no news to distract us. So A-Rod is getting divorced, Madonna is involved in it somehow, maybe she is getting a divorce, maybe she is not, Christie Brinkley is airing her dirty laundry in court. It's a perfect spectacle!