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Well, the results of my medical tests have come back and they're not good. It appears my condition is chronic, and there is no known cure for it. The good news is that it can be managed with lifestyle changes and, more importantly, is not progressive.
I had my suspicions about this many years ago when I decided to stop watching the network news. It wasn't long after that I noticed fewer bouts of depressed moods and unfocused anger. I noticed again a couple years ago, when I dropped my subscription to the Star Tribune, that my blood pressure dropped substantially, especially during those two stressful hours that I was spending every day finding grammatical errors and blatant bias in their news stories. Since then I've been content to get most of my news through blogs and talk radio, and I thought perhaps this self-medication had done the trick. Supposedly the ill side-effect of this treatment is that it gives me a biased view of events, but I prefer to believe that all I am missing are the toxins to the truth introduced by the mainstream media. If the right-wing blogosphere is a "filter" on the news, it is a beneficial one, acting only to remove the leftist ideological sludge that's already been put into it.
I thought I had my condition under control, but it's now clear that I was wrong. I think I just didn't want to admit it to myself. For example, I chose to record the last three presidential debates, rather than watching them live. I planned to, and did, learn all I wanted to know, I thought, from blogs and the Internet. Last night, though, I began watching the vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, hoping for entertainment if not enlightment. . No more than 15 minutes into it I found myself shaking my fist uncontrollably and yelling "liar!" at the TV set whenever Joe Biden spoke. I went into the music room, put on the headphones, and waited for it to be over. This test conclusively proves that I do not suffer fools lightly, but rather that I suffer them greatly. I simply cannot, health-wise, tolerate liberal Democrats, and there don't seem to be any other kind. No free range, no organically grown, just Democrats with all the poisonous rhetoric, hormone-addled attitude, and toxic policies still clinging to them like socialist friends to a corrupt Chicago political hack.
You can help. Please quarantine these virulent contaminants-- Obama and Biden-- in the U.S. Senate, where their lies, fantasies and generally offensive logorrhea can be better kept away from sufferers such as I.
Thank you.
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