Best story of the day, so far

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.

The above from author Susan Jacoby in an article in The New York Times. Ms. Jacoby has recently written The Age of American Unreason.

There’s also this: “A few years ago she participated in the annual campaign to turn off the television for a week. ‘I was stunned at how difficult it was for me,’ she said.”

NewMexiKen knows I’m unusual, but my television hasn’t been on since the Grammy Awards show Sunday. The computer — now that’s another story.