MoveOn.org .... Falling I Q's in America
I see more folks on Facebook, young people mostly, who say they are fans of MoveOn.org. Ain't that wonderful?
I.Q's have fallen in the last decade or so, of this there is little doubt. Don't think so? The recent flick " Ides of March " is now out, confused drivel that it is, and I asked some of the kids taking tickets and spooning out ice cream, what the title was origjnally famous for, to whit they answered to a man, " don't have a clue."
When I told each and every, " that's the date, Julius Caesar was killed, " one kid replied, " who was that?" THAT depressed me for the rest of the night.
I digress.
MoveOn.org was encouraged by "fob" (friends of BILL) to get the public's alledged mind off the scandals of POTUS's drippings on Monica Lewinsky and assorted scandals at the time which were dogging, so to speak, the prez.
Those of us with dogged memories of Slick Willy's dalliances including to 2 am rides out the back gate in a Merc to the Virginia Marriott Marquis (French, ya' know), I've forgotten the room number, the web site was to distract us from all that jizz...ah, jazz.
As Adolph once said, repeat it often enough, loud enough, and they will eventually believe it. Couple that with the encroaching ignorance overtaking our young folks, apparently if it's groovy enough - well...you get the idea.
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I.Q's have fallen in the last decade or so, of this there is little doubt. Don't think so? The recent flick " Ides of March " is now out, confused drivel that it is, and I asked some of the kids taking tickets and spooning out ice cream, what the title was origjnally famous for, to whit they answered to a man, " don't have a clue."
When I told each and every, " that's the date, Julius Caesar was killed, " one kid replied, " who was that?" THAT depressed me for the rest of the night.
I digress.
MoveOn.org was encouraged by "fob" (friends of BILL) to get the public's alledged mind off the scandals of POTUS's drippings on Monica Lewinsky and assorted scandals at the time which were dogging, so to speak, the prez.
Those of us with dogged memories of Slick Willy's dalliances including to 2 am rides out the back gate in a Merc to the Virginia Marriott Marquis (French, ya' know), I've forgotten the room number, the web site was to distract us from all that jizz...ah, jazz.
As Adolph once said, repeat it often enough, loud enough, and they will eventually believe it. Couple that with the encroaching ignorance overtaking our young folks, apparently if it's groovy enough - well...you get the idea.
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