I don’t even check Google News anymore, haven’t since the election. Part of it is simply that there isn’t much more to be learned, I think, about how disaster upon which we have embarked, and I find little entertainment in watching trains crash.

The other is that Google has gotten rid of many of the pre-defined categories that I used to like.

Anyway, I now look at the “news” from afar, sort of how one looks into an old spider-infested storm cellar that hasn’t been opened in years.