I have a friend who doesn’t watch the news. Rather than get all agitated, like the rest of us, she just quit tuning in to any news cast. I’m not sure she even reads a daily newspaper or takes a quick newsbreak online with Yahoo or Google.

Not watching the news is fine. I swear off it all the time, but then I miss a giant snake story and realize that while I might be saving a few cuss words by missing what’s happening in Washington, I’m also losing out on valuable information, like how close to the Georgia line have those boa constrictors gotten. (Not very, so put the hoe up.)

Now what I try to do is have a good mix of news sources so my political news gets diluted by the more applicable stories like tracking giant snakes or hurricanes or who’s going to be the next Food Network star.

What I’ve discovered is that if you keep up with the news, you can’t get away from politics because it is politicians who pretty much make the rules for all of us who aren’t politicians.

They do things like decide whether or not to hunt down all the giant snakes and kill them or whether or not to use all the school buses in their city to evacuate people when a monster storm is on the way and what happens when you just let those school buses sit there and fill up with water. (In New Orleans, you get re-elected.)

But, back to my friend who is news fasting. She’s kept up with it, the fasting part, for months.

I say, “Can you believe what those Bozos have done?”

She doesn’t know, so then I have to tell her the entire thing, not just what the Bozos did, but everything leading up to it. It’s time consuming.

By the time I finish filling in all the back story, I can’t remember why I even started the conversation, what point I was trying to make.

I’ve noticed during those times she just nods and smiles and I’ve decided she might be indulging my need to talk news, that inside her head she’s really humming a song or making a grocery list.

But that’s okay. She’s not watching the news or reading the news and she’s missing all the great stories out there, like this week’s alligator feeding frenzy which included video.

I saw it first on the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s website, but it is also featured on the Clinch County News website.

It’s a doozy. Over 300 alligators in one little stretch of water and then this one little boat goes putt putting through them while they are thrashing and rolling about in the water.

It ranked right up there with a big snake story.

Have a good week.