No school, No snow, No news, No Viagra?

Here is a list of the trending hot topics right now on the Boston Globe website, Boston.com:

Hot Topics: School vacation; Brady baby; Spring training; Valentine's Day; Winter arts guide.

I kid you not.

It would be snow, except we really don't have much here in Boston, unlike the dire predictions and the school closings would have had you believe.

But now that the Super Bowl is over and the Scott Brown win is in the can, there is nothing that is sparking anyone's interest. Or outrage.

At a super bowl party this weekend, conversation also fell flat. No more big debates about candidates, no crisis because Haiti was so last month, no celebrity fall-outs. No, nothing really. Even "palm-gate" was a bore because no one really cares that much about what Sarah Palin wrote on her hand. Seems the troops only get fired up when there are sides to take.

So then I went to the New York Times to see what they were talking about. They were talking about snow, snow and more snow. So I looked to see what people were reading and this is one of the most read articles today:

A Viagra Alternative to Serve by Candlelight

I am not making this up. It is a report about how certain foods act like an aphrodisiac.

Here is a quote from that article:
In one small experiment on sexual response to food scents, vaginal and penile blood flow was measured in 31 men and women who wore masks emitting various food aromas. This was the study that found men susceptible to the scent of doughnuts mingled with licorice. For women, first place for most arousing was a tie between baby powder and the combination of Good & Plenty candy with cucumber

What?

Geesh...could you imagine being the researchers on that study...or the subjects? I wonder how much federal grant money they received.

So, it is a slow news day. That is for sure. I plan to not turn on the local news tonight either because I really do not care to see reporters out on every highway to report that we really didn't get much snow, and that traffic seems to be moving well because everyone left work at noon. I can also do without hearing that Scott Brown is writing a book or that Tom Brady's kid is cute (wait, doesn't he already have another cute kid as well?)

So, I guess I will just curl up next to the fire with a good book and take a nap until either the next election or the next Brangelina expose.

Or I wonder if an increase in doughnut sales will be the next big story. Perhaps there will be doughnut wars. Which doughnut causes the biggest (no pun intended) reaction? It could spark a media blitz! Perhaps they will cover this on the Today Show....Matt Lauer can test Dunkin' Donuts against Krispy Kreme.

Wow, another exciting news day.