While I can’t say for sure where this newfound disconnection from the main nerve center of U.S. politics came from, what I can say is that I’m loving it. A couple of days ago, I listened to a podcast about bass fishing. I would have never done this a month ago. Hell, I don’t even like fishing! It just felt as though my mind was starving for input in any depository of my brain other than the one dedicated to political discourse—which at this point feels like Kobayashi’s stomach after the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.