ART: Sleeping On The Couch

Beth Bollinger / Accidental Rabbit Trails : A friend - who’s an active Republican - returned a phone call from me last night just as I was in the middle of my upset over the Dems caving to “death panel” lunacy. I tried not to bend his ear about it, but then I did. He listened well, and sympathized (figuring, I’m sure, that this was a time to be a good friend and not a political opponent). After I was pretty much done, he made the observation that, since my time isn’t taken up right now with a boyfriend, I’m using politics to fill the time gap. I stopped. Oh, no. He was right. Partly right, anyway. I got excited about politics last year for the first time because of Obama. But I’ve stayed hooked.

Question: On a scale of 1 to 10, how hooked on politics are you?