Unmethodical madness

Reading or, even more, watching the news has been an exercise in self-torture for years, now.

p m carpenter's commentary: Unmethodical madness:

Reading the news is no longer a mere informational experience. It has become, rather, a fretful descent into leaderless whiplash and cognitive dissonance, an unnerving peek into romper-room disarray and downright pixilation.

This dispiriting plunge, I suspect, is likely what threw Papa Bush into that contorted fit of teary-eyed gibbering the other day. Contrary to the media's psychoanalysis, he wasn't just thinking of Jeb or George, with pride or pity. He had simply read the papers that morning and shortly thereafter convulsed into a general state of neurotic despair.