Are you interested in anything right now?  Me neither.

There seems to be a lull in the world. I keep an emergency list of things to write about for times like this; that’s why the post on Qatar…Had that one for months…All used up now.

Israel may attack Iran…but they haven’t yet…Xi Jinping, Hu Jintao’s successor, was in America last week…or the week before. I forget.  He went to Iowa…I don’t know why…Maybe they’re stilling having caucuses, I don’t know…God, what a boring place Iowa seems…Just take a xanax and save the money…Or go to Canada.

Did somebody cut Newt Gingrich’s vocal chords?   Haven’t heard a thing from him…seems like in a while, too.  He is an interesting guy: smart, glib; temperamental, that’s what makes him entertaining, his temper….Boy or boy, I was wrong about New Hampshire sewing up the GOP nomination for Mitt Romney, huh?  Republicans just cannot warm to Romney.  What you read is that conservatives don’t trust him.  I think that’s accurate but I think it would be more accurate to say they don’t think Romney’s “real.”  I get that. Remember the Republicans bumper sticker when Bush43 ran against John Kerry:  “Bush is Real.”  Kerry seemed not:  “Who amongst us doesn’t like NASCAR?”  Remember that one?  Or, “I was for that before I was against it.”  They had a point. I think that’s what bothers Republicans about Romney.  Seeking the soul of Mitt Romney.  I just can’t see the Republicans nominating anyone else—and I don’t think they see themselves nominating anyone else—but this is going to be a shotgun wedding.  Who else are they going to nominate?  Newt?  Puh-lease.  For all his intelligence and conservative bona fides, Gingrich really irritates people, including Republican people. Rick Santorum?  Republicans like Santorum, he’s real to them.  Too real, lost-his-Senate-seat-by-18-points, too real. It’s the “Pennsylvania Paradox:”  a very important state that has sent one person to the White House in 220 years—and that was James Buchanan. Santorum graduated from Penn State for godssakes.  Not even Ron Paul thinks Ron Paul is a serious candidate. He’s just a cult candidate. No, Romney will be the nominee but it was not “over” with New Hampshire.

Syria…That’s real. Real serious, real bad. I’m just all Arab-ed out.  I’ve read the headlines, never read even one full article…Greece…I’m all Grecian-ed out...Jeremy Lin was a great story...if it hadn't been for Jeremy Lin and my friend Weimin Mo on Song Binbin...I don't know, I'd have been writing a follow-up on Qatar, I guess.