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Last week when I was home sick all day, my favorite activity, when not sleeping, was drinking tea and playing live games of scrabulous while listening to Rachel Maddow's show. Now, I'm happy that she got a two-hour show with a good time slot because I know that means its a promotion, but I actually prefer her previous 1-hour show, because really, the new show is the same show but with more ranty-voice emphasis on things and an added interview with a guest. The interviews never tell me a damn thing, even when its someone I am mildly intrigued by, and I actually prefer Rachel when she used the economy of timed language in news-reporting to say so much more then just...flat-out ranting about it, I guess. Anyway, my other favorite thing was to be home at 6 pm so I could watch the Jim Lehrer news hour, which always makes me think of Ms. Verge/FKA because that is her favorite news program ever and even when I visited her in Hoboken once, we had to go home and watch it, before going back out for our evening social activities. So all this news-watching got me all caught up on issues that had been neglected during the holiday month and travels and whatnot, but at some point I just was way oversaturated with the primaries and now I just feel like, ugh, wake me up for super Tuesday, I'm happy to remain willfully ignorant of all the ridiculous minutiae until then. I mean, I know what each candidate could possibly mean, and I know who I'm voting for (should they all still be running by the time Illinois rolls around), so really the only thing that interests me now at all is seeing how badly Giulani will fail during/after Florida. Which I guess is sometime next week. That sounds about right. I sometimes have to go on a news hiatus for my mental health, but its usually only a week or two and I manage to keep up with some things anyway. And besides, I will admit, my heart smiled a little when I read the headline on the elevator monitor on my way into work today that Fred Thompson dropped out of the race.