Up in arms

We're all flustered about stuff nowadays. I suppose because the bigger picture is just too much to grasp, we glom onto the little things. Miss USA falling on her ass. Budweiser being bought by the Belgians (like Europeans know nothing about brewing beer?). Brangelina naming the boy Knox Leon. (That was discussed at length in my office yesterday. Doesn't this poor kid have enough problems without a dumbass name on top of it?)
Today, I have no doubt that we will touch on the insulting, irresponsible cover of the New Yorker. And most likely the fact that our current administration believes that there are over 400,000 potential terrorists who may at any moment book a flight on United.
This is all in the way of distraction so we don't think about the collapse of the housing bubble, the war in Iraq, the posturing of hostile nations, the regrowth of the Taliban, the continuing rise in gas prices, the stagnating economy, the idiot in the White House. I could go on and on.
Instead, let's discuss the fact that my co-worker's brother-in-law will no longer be providing us with free Cialis pens. Crap.