The Unbearable Lightness of Irrelevance

I once had a friend whose favorite writer was Milan Kundera, a Czech novelist.  She’s still around.  I wonder what Milan Kundera’s up to.  I wonder if he’ll win the Nobel Prize someday.  He had a novel called The Unbearable Lightness of Being.  It was very philosophical.  Hence this title for the post.

The current Nobel laureate for literature is a poet who has lambasted the President for the Iraq war.  Let me say this now – I’m no Harold Pinter.

I did watch the President’s speech in part this morning, together with three Senate Democrats’ “Pre-buttal,” as they called it on CNN, and I’m wondering whether those speeches and the criticisms they created will last longer than 24 hours.  

Right now, Mariellen has turned on Alias Season 1 on DVD, and the primetime lineup of Lost and Alias will probably dominate our TV tonight.  I still am curious about the news though.  I’m wondering if the President or anyone else can truly move events forward or backward, or whether we’re all awash in a glut of information and entertainment.  We feed our brains so much crap these days.

One issue that’s come to the forefront in the national media and that directly affects the Southwest these days is immigration.  There’s an immigration reform bill making its way through Washington right now.  I don’t know how many Southwesterners are even aware of its existence.

I think we all need to be aware, but not too aware, of our limitations.  We all can only handle so much.