Steve, whether it’s good or bad, I’m always stunned at how little attention most people pay to the news. I’m just back from the Midwest, and it’s very easy for a newspaper-cable-Internet-NRO-Rush-Drudge junkie to feel totally disconnected from the news-generating machinery. Local papers I tried to rely on are often tiny and run most of their national and world news in AP snippets in inconvenient corners. (The sister-in-law in Minnesota doesn’t even get Fox and MSNBC on her subscription package.)

The comforting news in this is that perhaps we obsess too much at times over how festering boils of media bias are going to damage the conservative cause, when the larger audience is checking out “Samurai Jack” on Cartoon Network.