ignorance is bliss

"Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?" -Rush Limbaugh

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I'm sort of relieved to be going back to school because it means that I won't be home to watch and listen to the news; I'm almost on news overload. I hate that no matter which news station you watch (I go between CNN, MSNBC, and Fox) you have to listen to people telling you what to think and why their opinion is right and everyone else is wrong. I consider myself to be a reasonable person and so I try to listen to both sides of a story and then decide who I agree with. Usually, I find myself falling in the middle. The downside of this is that I hear about lots of things going on that people research and it makes me feel helpless.

I do like being informed about what is going on in the world but sometimes I wish I were ignorant-- Ignorance is bliss, they say!