Part 1 of "Probably Going to be Continued"

Good evening friend! (singular and much more personal). I know that I'd previously promised explosions and romanticism, but there is only going to be explosions as I reveal my first ever "Probably Going To Be Continued Blog "Series"".

Part 1-Addicted to America. I love watching TV. I've come to find the reason shows like Jersey Shore are so popular and keep random bloggers constantly making fun of them is, they make people feel good about themselves. They watch that train wreck and can't take their eyes off it. They know they would never do any of those things and take pleasure in watching the dumb get dumber on "reality" TV.  I'm going to use a similar concept to try and get you guys to feel great about America. I'm making it my personal responsibility to open some eyes to how fortunate we are. I call it the Jerry Springer Effect.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/359538

Wow. Egypt sucks. I had no idea things were even close to this kind of chaos. In typical American fashion I though all the Egyptians were happily constructing pyramids in their fancy gold loin clothes and funny sphinx hats. As I read through the article I started to feel a sense of guilty relief.  I couldn't come up with a situation in my head where the US government would need to completely shut down internet and cell phone activity so citizens couldn't communicate protest hotspots. It gets really good when, despite having to launch tear gas at 10's of thousands of people, the president assured everybody things were under control and Egypt's citizens were in good hands. Good hands?!? Obviously he doesn't realize it's still in the hands of the people who are responsible for systematically driving the country into poverty and despair over the last 30 years.
Finally, my favorite part of the article was subtle and made my point for me. As you get toward the end, the gentleman who wrote the article sneaks in a single off topic sentence "Think you know the middle east? Take our geography quiz."  I was astonished... there is disaster within what's stated as "one of our closest allies in the middle east" and they're  more concerned with getting hits on their new geography quiz website.
Yes, what is going on in Egypt is horrific and I want no part of it, but damn, I sure am happy I don't have to worry about  having tear gas fired at me or worse.... no internet or cell phone!

to be continued....