Purple bubble

From Willipedia

....The place where all world news is lost. Especially when your common room TV is broken.

Wait, we're waging war with who??!?! What hurricane? Oh, man, has Texas seceded?

We wouldn't know. We're in the bubble, baby. The purple bubble.

There are PoliSci majors here who had no idea who Howard Dean was when he came to visit.

This common ailment can be cured by just five minutes a day of reading the the drudge report

Or by 1/2 hour a day, by watching "The Daily Show."