Take a vow, Ed, to walk away from the media for forty days.

First, you will be spared all the negabobbery and carping and snidities with which the media is rife. Second you will reduce the risk of being contaminated with evil ideas. Third, your emotional health will improve by not being exoposed to intention dramatization of negatives at every hour. And FOurth, you will be pleasantly surprised when you come back to discover that President-elect Obama is already tooling up to improve things.


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