OH, PILLORY ME IF YOU MUST, but so gosh-darn many people are famous for not having contributed anything valuable to society these days, or for being infamous, that I have taken it upon myself to create a click-through media embargo list. Call it the last bastion of my tattered sanity in this info-mad, somewhat media-psychotic world.

I am disciplined. I work very hard not to click any link anywhere - Facebook, MSN, Google, Drudge, HuffPost, I mean ANYWHERE - that could boost the alleged news value of non-newsmakers or news abusers.

My reasoning is simple: If I want substantial news items or people to be covered, I can't contribute to the dumbing down of America - no matter how entertaining, no matter how much schadenfreude I might feel by clicking through. There's only a limited amount of information I can process a day. These people - and their peccadillos or major gaffes - don't rate because, well, they actually shouldn't, IMHO.

Call it 'a work in progress'....

The following list is my own. I don't purport that everyone should subscribe to it. (And, for heaven's sake, if you've written about this here, on OS - THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU. I haven't posted in about forever.... Go check if you don't believe me.)

Look, my Sarah Palin could be your Monica Lewinsky. My Angelina Jolie could be your Angela Lansbury (or, you know, maybe not). Note, too, that this list is a work in progress. For example, I am sure there are many other names I avoid subconsciously. I just give them so little thought, because their impact on my life is so vastly inconsequential, and I could care less than less, that I can't recall them at this moment.

For whomever you believe shouldn't be earning the media spotlight (because it's stealing space from REAL NEWS), I encourage you to AVOID CLICKING THROUGH. Otherwise, you'll have proven they are, in fact, news.

Do the right thing: Do nada to promote those people who make today's news seem like SNOOZE.

Lisa's Current Click-through Media Embargo List as of Sept. 29, 2010, at 10:57 p.m. includes:

• Sarah Palin
• Bristol Palin
• Levi Johnston-Palin
• Any Palin children or the Palin husband
• People who become famous by talking about or knowing Sarah Palin
• Shows featuring Palins (sorry DWTS fans)
• Lindsay Lohan
• (See above, repeat, such as:)
• Lindsay Lohan's dad and mom
• Britney Spears
• (See above, repeat, including:)
• Kevin Federline
• Anna Nicole Smith
• Michael Jackson
• Michael Jackson's family
• Michael Jackson's doctor
• Heidi & What's His Name (oh, SPENCER - it just came to me - I have no idea why they are famous)
• Brangelina - together or separate
• Cheaters like: Tiger Woods, Ashton Kutcher, Jesse James (all these guys need real first names, especially the last, whose parents must have been kidding)
• Any of their mistresses or girlfriends - of which there are far too many who obviously don't care if they are infamous
• Any of the mistresses'/girlfriends' lawyers (I mean YOU, Gloria Allred), who obviously forget these women made a conscious choice to become infamous
• Politicians like: John Edwards, Larry Craig, Eliot Spitzer
• Any of their mistresses or partners or working girls
• Monica Lewinsky wanna-bes - female or male
• Michael Vick
• ARod
• T.O.
• Bobby Brown
• ANT
• The Situation
• Snookie
• Ann Coulter
• Real Wives of Anywhere
• Jersey Shore of any... um... shore
• Octomom
• Jon & Kate
• Just Kate (with or without 8)
• Mel Gibson
• Rihanna + That Jerk Singer (inconsequentially forgotten)
• Taylor Swift + That Other Jerk Singer (ditto)
• Anyone who's suing for attention (always a subjective decision)
• Anyone who ought to win a Darwin Award (why encourage them?)
• People who perform acts of villainy (cat-in-trash-bin lady)
• Balloon-boy families

There. That's a pretty good start. I'm ready for my rack-up, Mr. DeMille.

NOTE: No links were clicked through in the making of this blog entry. All people listed above - famous, infamous, ridiculous, odiferous, or otherwise - have so saturated the author's mind as a result of unreasonable media overexposure, she couldn't help but recall, with considerable cringing, their questionable impact on modern society, thereby listing them here, fairly or not.  All rights reserved. Do not pass GO; do not collect $200.

Addendum (non-date specific, but as I go along - and as I think of people):

• Tea Partier Christine O'Donnell
• Paris Hilton
• Heidi Klum
• Kim Kardashian
• Mel Gibson's wife