Sitting here enjoying a morning cup of coffee. Or at least I was until the neighbor's puppy started howling. Funny. Appropriate. The same stupid girls that leave a bag of trash outside their door for nearly two weeks before taking it to the dumpster.
Reading Susan Jacoby's "The Age of American Unreason." I think this scenario would play into the book somehow. I bet the girls would probably think that Europe was a country!
Anyways... the reason that I even thought about doing this blog thing was because Jacoby was listing blogs as an example of how we as Americans have stopped having conversations with each other. Its true if you look around. No one talks to each other anymore. We talk AT each other a lot, but not TO each other. I don't mind so much because I think people are stupid and speaking to them is a waste of my time. But they are getting more and more stupid because they are not engaging in conversation. And they are not reading. I shudder to think the last time most people have read a book cover to cover. I myself will be finishing book number two today. That's two this week. I'd like to get through three or four a week, but work really gets in the way. If I can at least blaze through two, I don't feel like I'm falling behind.
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