Invoking Parkinson's Law is incorrect. That would require Arrington to be uninteresting, and your main point to be intimidatingly profound, neither of which are

Invoking Parkinson's Law is incorrect. That would require Arrington to be uninteresting, and your main point to be intimidatingly profound, neither of which are true. This was plain old Distraction By Shiny Objects. I think "see randomness" applies here.