February 16, 2008

Who’s reading this blog?

February 16, 2008 – 10:34 pm
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Who’s reading this blog?

FeedBurner says I have around 100 subscribers to this blog, which is a flattering number, given the small amount of time I have to post these days. Others I know visit the site on occasion instead of subscribing. I am humbled and thankful that you think I have something interesting to pass along.

But since you know so much about me, I’d like an introduction. What’s your name? What do you do? How did you find out about the blog? What are your favorite things about it? Is there something you’d like to see more of? Less of?

So go ahead - drop a few comments on this post and tell me about yourself.

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Are we getting dumber?

February 16, 2008 – 8:46 pm
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Are we getting dumber?

Walking home to her Upper East
Side apartment [on 9/11/2001], she stopped at a
bar. As she sipped her bloody mary, she quietly listened to two men,
neatly dressed in suits. For a second she thought they were going to
compare that day’s horrifying attack to the Japanese bombing in 1941
that blew America into World War II:

“This is just like Pearl Harbor,” one of the men said.

The other asked, “What is Pearl Harbor?”

“That was when the Vietnamese dropped bombs in a harbor, and it started the Vietnam War,” the first man replied.

At that moment, Ms. Jacoby said, “I decided to write this book.”

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