You Give Us 22 Minutes, We'll Give You The World

I float along in my private world about 94% of the time, and pay attention to the public and political world around me about 6% of the time. Yet most of what happens in my private world depends on that larger world staying stable, staying at least as good as it is now and has been for the last 50 years.

I guess I'd like to start my own little summary of the news, or of the world's week, whatever seems The Important Stuff to me. Every person who does a news list, a daily paper, a monthly newsmagazine, sorts out what they see as the first concerns, the main stories, the Big Deals at the time. Do I really want to join that club in some little "20 minutes now and then" way?

When I was in my 20s, Los Angeles had a news station that must have done 22 minutes of news each half hour, and 8 minutes of commercials, because their motto was "You give us 22 minutes, and we'll give you the world." Am I ready for my 22 minutes?

Maybe so.