Posting 2

Please forgive the unoriginal title, but I thought I might deal with several things here. I've been inspired to try this again by a friend's blog.

I've been OBSESSED with politics lately. I'm really anxious about the election and an Obama supporter. Actually, I'm probably a little further left than Obama, and therefore really scared of a McCain/Palin administration -- especially the Palin part. This isn't so much about my politics, though, as about my obsession with various types of political coverage right now. There's The Daily Show, of course, and I've been trying to eat lunch at 1:00 so that I can catch it during the day (I'm still unemployed, so that's not much of a problem). I'm also a big fan of podcasts, and that's where I catch most of it -- the Slate political gabfest (http://www.slate.com/id/2201574/), Tom Ashbrook's Week in the News (on Fridays -- http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510053), NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" (http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=5183214), and the Rachel Maddow show (it's the audio of the TV show, but portable -- I think they have the video up, too, but I just listen to the audio -- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8132577/). I've also got several other Air America shows that I haven't tried out yet waiting for me. You can find them all on itunes as well.

Anyway, about the obsession. I was never really all that interested in the news (except, of course, the Daily Show and Wait Wait) before this election. I would download some of the podcasts because I thought I should listen, but never really did. I'd just erase them when the next one came out. Now they are the first podcasts that I listen to (even before the beloved Filmspotting now), and yesterday, I spent almost the whole day listening to the ipod -- all news podcasts. Maybe I should consider it an addiction. I guess that I don't really need an intervention, though, since it will all be over (God willing) next Tuesday.