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But there are degrees. Everyone who reads Salon and posts letters (it occupies a significant piece of each day - and probably Salon is not the only internet reading and writing we-all do...what about Slate, the W.P., the NYT, various special-interest e-lists...) is indulging addiction to some extent. But when it occupies every spare moment (and moments that shouldn't be spare) and there is a perceived need to hide it, then that's *too much*. Solution? Ah, well that's for greater minds than mine... Getting A Life, perhaps, the LW already has one...perhaps too much of one, which is a problem. We all do need time for ourselves and our own indulgence, but it has to be balanced with (sigh) realism...