Snooki(e) tax

I'm kinda fixated on Snooki(e) in a similar fashion to the way I was fixated on Nene on the R.H. of Atlanta. Too horrified to confront the underlying reasons for my own weakness for trashy, needy, self-centered bitch/sluts, I just throw myself into the moment and go along for the ride.
I do feel horrible later - but its like a hangover. It goes away. Fast enough that you are guaranteed to do it again soon.

In any case, Snooki(e) somehow lives on despite having absolutely no meaningful value in an accidental case of the US Senate via the tanning tax and ObamaCare. Now accidents do happen - but when an august publication like the Wall Street Journal has Snooki(e) in an op-ed piece BY THE EDITORS.

Things have gone a little bit too far. Is Rupert Murdoch secretly infusing the paper with his signature dross (think anything Fox)???

Now many don't like ObamaCare and the tanning tax is silly but when Republicans start invoking Snooki(e) and her penchant for tanning as a rebuttal to the president's policies - I start to wonder if nothing is now sacred...

Pop culture has become simply insidious - I mean it just seems I cannot get away from Lady Gaga - no matter how hard I try, she is on TV, radio, the web, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, Economist, every drag show has several Gagettes, the gay bars have her on endless loops.

It seems that the only place I haven't seen her is in Foreign Affairs (and very interestingly - she never makes it to the tabloids, I've yet to see her on the cover of any of the lowest forms of mass media) - but she'll probably show up soon enough. Just because it is out there and the masses like it - that does not mean one has to discuss it.

I just wish there was a firewall in serious publications and media sources to prevent pop culture contamination.