[Miss Modular]

For the longest time, I've prided myself on keeping up with current events and forming an opinion on them.

But I give up. More and more, I just want to tune it all out. There's a serious schism in the House and Senate. Everytime I pass through a major bookstore, most of the new releases are either aimed at how bad liberals are, or how bad conservatives are, or how a plan outlining how [insert sector of dems or repubs] are going to "take back America". I'm not even sure how I feel about Iraq at this point, and (honestly), I'm not entirely sure if I care.

Part of me would really like to participate in active discussion of current events, but I'm also sick of the media putting talking heads on a pedestal, as if their "talking points" are any more enlightened or valid than you or I.

I realize what I'm saying here might not be entirely thought out, but I'm very frustrated right now.