Tuesday, December 28, 2010

A Day With The Times

After a pleasant hiatus of a fair number of years, I on Sunday read through the day's edition of The New York Times . . . , and boy, was it ever a hoot. By the time I was done my head was spinning with the amazing knowledge and ideas that I had acquired.

The most important thing I gleaned from my renewed exposure to what once was the nation's great newspaper of record is that we have, and are suffering from a surfeit of people who have been educated beyond their respective capacities. They staff and have seized control of most of our governmental, academic, and media institutions. When not engaged in their usually pursuits in those institutions -- most of which inflict various kinds and degrees of harm on our society -- they spend inordinate amounts of time and effort claiming and celebrating their status as superior beings and congratulating and honoring themselves and one another.

Explicit reports in the paper informed me that:

*  The record breaking cold, blizzards, and snow and ice storms that the North American and European continents are experiencing all are due to global warming.

*  It is going to be necessary for the federal government to bail out the nation's biggest (and biggest spending) states because they have squandered their way into bankruptcy. No mention is made of the fact that this means that  tax paying residents of states that have managed their financial affairs relatively prudently now are supposed to chip in and pay for the goodies that they have done without but that the profligate states have provided for their residents.

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