Summer News Lull
Some people are concerned that Americans have forgotten we are at war and have lost the will to fight. I think that the problem isn’t quite as desperate-sounding and can be explained through the usual summer news lull which has happened every year since I started the Razor, with a little bit of “reversion to normality” thrown in.
It reminds me of the first issue of The Onion after September 11 which boldly proclaimed “We want our boring lives back!”
Well, America has its boring lives back. After all if you are seriously moved by the trial of Michael Jackson or the engagement of Paris Hilton, then feel free to pat yourself on the ass and say “Yes, the terrorists haven’t triumphed. I’ve got my boring life back!”
Such a lull and complacency cannot be countered. The only thing that will change it is a large-scale terrorist attack on American soil. Barring that the only people who are paying attention right now are news junkies like me and barking moonbats who mistakenly assume the silence they are hearing is people agreeing with their ravings.
Sorry, it’s not. It’s simply the Summer News Lull and American infatuation with its own navel.
