We’re a bit distracted, this week, on the medical front; let’s just say that Jell-O is involved — lemon and pineapple Jell-O, to be precise. In a subsequent entry, the Editor will dilate discreetly.

We would like to take a course in Managing Your Google Reader, but it’s wishful thinking to imagine that there could be such a thing, at least in this early days. It is depressing, Monday mornings, to be greeted thus: “All Items (1000+).” Especially when it persists after all 257 reddit items have been marked as read. Ditto MetaFilter‘s 114. Only after dutifully scrolling through our friend Joe’s 95 most recent feeds (how did fall so far behind?) does the number come into focus, at 913.

And even as we feel that we’re looking at too many different sites, we also feel that we need to see new ones. We rely too heavily upon Felix Salmon, but we haven’t found anyone else who writes so well about the economy. Also: pertinently. As often as we’re intrigued by entries at Marginal Revolution, we’re discouraged by the impatience that our having merely showed up inspires in Tyler Cowen.

And we miss last year’s Astor and Zelaya sagas, which amused at almost every turn. The best that we can hope for this year is that someone will declare war on the War on Terror.

Perhaps we’ll live long enough to see the introduction of Seniors Jell-O: all flavors, no dyes.

Drop me a line at rjk@dailyblague.com
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