Extra attention to a few Centrist blogs:
Western Democrat: Democrats investing in the future.
Justin Gardner at Donklephant: Rehnquist was a junky?
Michael Linn Jones at Gun Toting Liberal is “beginning to have doubts about” the value / importance of cell phones. I’m not: I detest them. They are perhaps – in my humble opinion – mankind’s worst invention. Young children have cell phones these days. I see them walking around with them. Who the hell are they calling? Mama and papa?
And in the train: extremely obnoxious people shout in their cell phones, disturbing everyone else, reading has become impossible…
And worse, people are shocked if one says that one does not own a cell phone. “But how can people reach you?????” As if, before the era of the cell phone people could not be reached! We have to be “reachable” all the time! If not through the Internet, than by phone. And what’s the use in all of it? Does the mere existence of the cell phone make people happier? I don’t think so. It makes people more stressed! I don’t want to be reachable all the time. When I’m in the train, I want to read. If you want to talk to me you can visit me (something people did back in the day).
I have an e-mail address. People can reach me there and I will read the e-mails when it’s convenient for me. That’s the beauty of having an e-mail address.
Cell phones.
Bah.
Anyway, the last link is to Michael J. Totten at Winds of Change: “It’s Like a Phish Concert for Terrorists”.
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