When you don’t feel well enough to be out and about and the holidays have gotten you down, you tend to do silly and pointless things, like look through people’s Amazon Wish Lists and wish you had enough money to practice some seriously random acts of kindness.

I don’t know half of these people, those whose lists I peruse. I’ve never met them, and here I am studying the lists of things they covet, things they hope other people will buy for them on Christmas or on their birthdays … and I contemplate actually buying them something from their lists, just to see the “Show Items Purchased” link turn up on the page.

I scan their list of Favorite People, looking for familiar names, and I look at their lists, too. I don’t know why. The items they want and the people they list just seem so interesting. In any case, I hop Amazon Wish Lists in this way, moving from one person’s list to another.

One guy actually has Newt Gingrich on his list of Favorite People, which surprises me. I notice that Newt doesn’t actually have a wish list, but he has a ton of reviews. Another guy has this item in his list, and I can’t figure out why or even why it’s so expensive. The mysteries of life!

Then I notice that Andre Torrez has George W. Bush on his list of Favorite People, and when I look at George’s list, I bark-cough in laughter and feel much better than I have for a long, long while.

Too bad there has been no shipping address entered. It looks like George could really use those items.

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