Confirmation breeds apathy

By DAVID GREEN

I have to admit it -- I am just a little puzzled by the short shelf life of the Danica Patrick-to-stock cars story. But, I suppose most everybody had already exhausted the supply of things to write about it before the fact.

But, come on -- holy cow. This was big -- bigger than big, Barney Fife would have told Sheriff Andy Taylor. The cows came home. The National Weather Service issued brass-monkey advisories in Hades. Chicken Little was squashed by the falling sky. The little boy who cried "Wolf!" got eaten.

And it has already disappeared from prominent navigation on this and other motor sports Web sites?

Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 -- a date which will live in ... uh ... trivia?

We'll remember it, like, for as long as we can?

Another paradox: Now that it really is a story, it's not one.