I still read the sports page first.

A few days ago I wrote a letter to the editor of our local paper about an issue of local importance, so I knew it was likely to be published any day now. But this morning, I still read the sports page first. Then I checked the editorial page, and there was my letter. Ho hum.

So I’m asking myself a teenager’s question: Is there something wrong with me?

When dozens die in a suicide bombing at a Moscow Airport, I am scanning the high school soccer results.

When a Yemeni protest leader is seized because she dared to speak up about civil rights violations, I am amazed to see the Packers declared the early betting favorite for the Super Bowl.

When people in the East must dig their way out of yet another snowstorm, I am wondering why the rest of the Pacific Division (besides the Lakers) is so rotten.