Letters to the Editor
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Just a thought
I'm sorry you were bored. Gee. Have you ever thought about changing jobs? I may be mistaken, but once upon a time, long before reporters and anchors and pundits were being paid millions of dollars to swig brandy and exchange quips about this candidate's hair or that candidate's laugh, some stalwart souls in the fourth estate actually enjoyed their jobs and went after the meat in a story with a vengeance. At least that's the way it seemed to me. Now all the press consists of is a gaggle of Marie Antoinettes whose attitude seems to be, "Let them eat scandal!" Get up off the chaise longue and take a look around. The world's still a pretty intersting place, if you just give it a chance. Heck, there might even be a decent story in the candidates' health care plans, or, I don't know, their vision of a post-Bush American foreign policy. "Honesty and wit are so rarely combined," says Monsieur Bellegarde in the French film "Ridicule." Exactement, mon amis.