The Health Care Summit: Plumbing the depths of boredom

Jonah Goldberg has a funny column on yesterday's health care summit. He found it very boring. I had work to do and only caught some clips, but here are a few funny paragraphs from Jonah's column:

"More to the point: It was mind-bogglingly, soul-achingly, sand-poundingly, metaphysically, and ontologically boring. Watching it was like driving through Kansas on the interstate (something I’ve done many times): long, vast stretches of boredom punctuated by the occasional brief promise of excitement that would require detouring from the planned route.

It reminded me of that old Monty Python skit where British soldiers are equipped with the world’s funniest joke, a joke so funny that even to hear it guarantees you’ll die laughing. The British army translates the gag into German (different translators for each word so as to prevent their own deaths) and has its troops read the German version as they march through Ardennes forest. Suddenly, Nazi soldiers start falling dead from the trees.

Substitute “boring” for “funny” and you’ll get a vague sense of how dull this summit was. "

Believe me... I've driven through Kansas several times too and that IS the definition of boring.