Like you, we’re sick of considering the poor Midwesterns who are forced to watch repeats of Dave Letterman because of the writers strike. Let’s be honest, Dave Letterman is not that funny, even with writers. Those Midwesterns should have better late night plans anyway.

But pothead college students, we care about those kids, if only because we’re just like them except with degrees. We also care about the 2008 election; we’re suckers for democracy.

So after many weeks, there’s finally a new angle to the writers’ strike: What are the stoned college kids missing out on now that fake news is in reruns?

In 2004, 21 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds said they got their news from The Daily Show and Saturday Night Live, compared with 23 percent who got their information from nightly newscasts of NBC, ABC, and CBS. (We’re surprised that so many healthy kids could sit through all the pharmaceutical ads for their news, too.)

Since the strike, alpha male Bernard Kerik continued to embarrass Rudy Giuliani, the democratic debate in Las Vegas proved that Speech and Rhetoric should be a required high school course, and Mitt Romney continued his quest to say anything to get the Republican nomination. And Jon Stewart hasn’t reported on any of it.

From the beginning, presidential hopefuls supported the writers. But with writers picketing, they’ve been getting a free pass on mockery. Politicians are so sneaky!