If I'm so often enthralled, appalled, over-engaged, distracted and delighted, it's because there are others out there sifting and refracting this world of information right back at me.
On Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross's "Sachsgate" affront of 2008, Armstrong added, "appalling, over-the-line-stepping as it was, I could write a thesis on why they were doing something extremely funny".
Despite the social and religious segregation that must be the precondition to such revelations about how black folks talk, many white voters seemed appalled that over in black churches "they" are not thinking the same American thoughts that I am.
At first, I was appalled at her over-crating, and unsurprised at her neuroses, but after some weeks my compassion waned.
Reconciliation took longer still, but in 1997 an editorial in the unionist Belfast News Letter about Bloody Sunday condemned the Paras' "appalling over-reaction" in shooting down people "who were guilty of nothing" and called for "a heartfelt, unambiguous apology from the highest possible source".
It appalled me all over again when I returned to The Franchise Affair a few years ago, as part of my research into the 1940s for my own novel, The Night Watch.
"It's not new, but in sports it seems we are doomed to be shocked and appalled all over again," said Dr. Sandra Kirby, an associate vice president for research at the University of Winnipeg, who led a study in the 1990s that found widespread instances of sexual misconduct involving coaches of the Canadian national team in various sports.
He was also appalled by questions over Rosendale's Montana identity.
They also made plain they are appalled by reports over the weekend that US marines killed Iraqi civilians, including women and children, as they seized bridges outside Nassiriya in southern Iraq.
