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Ever since I returned from vacation two weeks ago, I feel disassociated from the blogosphere, the news, and even my own life. Reportage, such as is it on a blog, is work these days. I broke the spell. I work on translating my vacation journal to a digital format to avoid the tedium of researching for blogdom.

But what is there to write about? The news hasn’t changed much this last month: Cindy and Casey Sheehan (yawn), sure she’s a figurehead of the anti-incumbent crowd, but the usual suspects are acting in the usual ways – how boring; the pullout of Gaza is interesting in light of my latest adventures, but most Americans don’t really care, and the news media is getting the whole thing wrong – as usual; Downing Street seems to have gone down the tubes while I was away (another yawn). Viewing the media top stories is like viewing summer reruns; nothing has changed, the punch lines are all the same and even the laugh tracks sound strained.

Here are four op-eds from NY Times today: All boring.

Walking the Wrong Way: About the ill-concieved Freedom Walk planned for September 11 this year. It’s too late to bolster support for the war, both the war and its attendant propaganda campaign are lost causes. Bushies are gathering on the poop deck of a sinking ship (yawn).

The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan: A brief history of Karl “Don’t Call Me Marx” Rove and his favorite tool, the smear campaign, and its failure to work on Cindy Sheehan. More pabulum about the failing war and America’s slow awakening to reality. The really sad part is America will never unite behind punishing our leaders for their crimes; end result, nothing (yawn).

Live From Gaza: A New View of Israel: a Palestinian viewpoint that is anything but new: “We won’t be satisfied until Israel is exterminated,” and Gaza is just the start (yawn). Such single-minded disassociation from reality is worthy of an American political regime. Hello, folks, the Jews are winning! Divorcing the remaining Israeli Arabs from reality, those who believe (mistakenly) that there will ever again be a Palestine, has not fared well.

The Dispossessed: Elie Wiesel pipes in about Gaza, remonstrating Palestinians for doing their favorite dance: Death to Israel Shuffle. Specifically he mentions the fist-pumping that is endemic in the Palestinian so-called “Authority” for acting as thugs by reveling in the pain of the relocated Jews of Gaza (*Blink, blink* – I must have fallen asleep). To celebrate another’s pain is foolish and against the Koran. These hate mongers are neither good citizens nor good Arabs. It’s no wonder that they have not been able to create jobs, economies, or education for their people. Their singular attitude is causing their extinction faster than anything the Israelis can dish out (yawn).

There’s nothing new on the news, nothing worthy of attention; as humanity make the same mistakes all over again, as different players rewrite the same plays for the benefit of nobody.

I think I’ll go to sleep early tonight…