When my friend Girl Friday writes, I just sit back and enjoy. More than once I’ve linked to her posts.

The latest post contains a quip that really sums up a concept I’ve grown fairly disgusted with. I call it “poli-bleed.” It’s where everything becomes a platform for political bickering. In this case, a site about fashion, in which a commenter takes a political swipe for no apparent reason. Girl Friday responds exactly right:

“Poor Stacey forgot she was on a fashion website and not on her lavender-scented soap box.”

I have seen on various sites, ranging from hair style how-tos (yes, I would like to know how to do things with my hair) to cooking tips, comments left by people that have nothing to do with the topic and are merely ill-thought low-wit cheap-shot political barbs.

Are we so rabid about our political beliefs that the directions on how to create a chignon or where to buy business attire inspire venemous comments on Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin? Is everything political?

Step back and away and from the little pit of rage that is your personal politics and find a way to enjoy and adapt to life as it is, people. It seems as if some folks are so quivering with political anger that they can barely order a sandwich at a restaurant without some kind of misplaced diatribe. An open comments section on any website is simply too much to resist. It must be filled with garbage.

As Girl Friday said in her witty post: I am so bored already.