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flatluigi:

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which meant that i deleted all the political blogs i followed in google reader, stopped reading the SA political comics thread, and stopped watching the daily show/colbert report. this was like a month or two after LF died

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it was mainly that i was stressing about politics too much for something i…

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I drove across the country once, east to west on I-80. Only contact I had with the world were radio stations that filtered in and out and occasionally newspapers where we stopped to eat. Both were more pointedly Christian than I expected.

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Anyway occasionally I would come into contact with national news and after a week it was hilarious how goofy it sounded, being all SRS BZNES about something that described fresh was obviously silly.

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I realized that if I didn’t pay attention to politics I had just as much influence on it as before and it bugged me much less.

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