In the past, whenever I read or heard about someone taking a break from work for their mental health I was harshly judgmental. There were a couple of factors at play that made me that way. The first is that I was educated in Catholic schools by real nuns. We didn't have feelings or mental health or excuses.
The second is that I am a stand-up comic and a writer; being a little "off" is a résumé builder in both professions.
Having to deal with American leftists five or six days a week has got me wondering if their ongoing nervous breakdown might soon start to make me the kind of crazy that I don't want to be, if there is such a thing.
This is all rooted in a workday habit of mine that many of you know about. I begin my work research each day by reading the Opinion sections of The New York Times and The Washington Post, mostly so that my colleagues and readers don't have to. Writing about liberal bias in the mainstream media has been my thing for over two decades, so hitting the motherlode every morning makes sense.
Both organizations have been hotbeds of insanity during the last decade, but it's getting worse by the hour here in President Trump's second term, especially in the Opinion sections. During a radio interview last month I said that I feel as if I'm reading the case notes from a psychiatrist who works in a mental hospital when I'm checking out the NYT and WaPo op-eds. It's the kind of insanity that I am grateful I don't have to be in the same room with.
I'm writing this on Wednesday evening. When I opened the Times' Opinion section this morning, I looked at the first column and thought to myself, "I can't do this today." That's never happened before. However, I've been thinking for a few weeks that it might. I mean, what if there is some kind of bats**t cooties that they can give to unwitting observers?
These people are clinically insane, increasingly dangerous, and, for the most part, quite unattractive. If I am ever put in charge, there will be a gulag. Unfortunately, I can't simply write variations on those sentences and earn a living.
I do think I will take a brief hiatus from the feces-flinging Opinion chimps at The New York Times and The Washington Post, though. It shouldn't be too long. It's important that I do this for my mental health.
America needs me to be the right kind of crazy, after all.
Namaste and na zdrowie.
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