Thursday, 21 November 2002 | Nauseous

Environmental, political, critical news is a plate full of soggy, overcooked vegetables—good for you, but difficult to digest and unpleasant. As bad as it tastes, you want everyone else to try the same food, so that we can collectively fire the cooks who prepared it. The Daily News, AOL news, FOX news—that is last year's stale Halloween candy. Initially, it looks like it might be a good idea to eat it, and it certainly is friendlier than the soggy vegetables, but it gives you a false sugar high, and if you consume too much of it, it makes you sick. More dangerous is eating it little by little, and learning to subsist on that alone, because that's when you start to believe that that's all there is. I generally get a daily dose of both (one because I look for it, and the other because I can't avoid it), and I have yet to decide which makes me feel worse.