Bores and Boors
Peggy Noonan has a column in today's Wall Street Journal on what she sees as a decline in manners at a time when personal wealth seems to have increased.
She is particularly tough on technology. Here's a quote I can agree with wholeheartedly:
Cellphones are wonderful, but they empower the obnoxious and amplify the ignorant. Once they kept their thoughts to themselves. They had no choice. Now they have cellphones, into which they bark, "I'm on line at Duane Reade. Yeah. Ex-Lax." Oh, thank you for sharing. How much less my life would be if I didn't know.
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