Last night I went to the gym to run a few miles on the treadmill. As I was warming up I looked up at one of the TV's they have there and who was looking down at me, from an MSNBC interview? Why none other than a personal hero of mine, David Walker, former chief financial cop at the US GAO.
You probably recall me writing about him several times in the past as being one of the people who 'created' me (along with Prechter, Hoye, a mysterious internet and phone acquaintance who shall remain nameless, and some old gold bugs I read at gold-eagle.com).
Anyway, there I am no doubt with a goofy look of admiration on my face, though not listening because I use an iPod (last night Eve 6 got me through the workout). Then a lady on the treadmill next to me called one of the gym's staff over to change the channel. "I can't STAND this!! I don't want to HEAR this!! Change the channel!!" To which I said "yeh, who wants to hear about a few more $Trillion in debt, anyway?"... she responds "Oh I can't stand this!! Oh it's terrible!!" I put the ear phones in quickly and tuned her out.
Fittingly, she had the channel changed to the Food Network where a somewhat rotund woman was baking miniature muffins. As she tipped the baking pan over and all the little muffins tumbled out I could not help thinking of each muffin as carrying roughly the same level of discriminating brain power as that of the average American.
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You probably recall me writing about him several times in the past as being one of the people who 'created' me (along with Prechter, Hoye, a mysterious internet and phone acquaintance who shall remain nameless, and some old gold bugs I read at gold-eagle.com).
Anyway, there I am no doubt with a goofy look of admiration on my face, though not listening because I use an iPod (last night Eve 6 got me through the workout). Then a lady on the treadmill next to me called one of the gym's staff over to change the channel. "I can't STAND this!! I don't want to HEAR this!! Change the channel!!" To which I said "yeh, who wants to hear about a few more $Trillion in debt, anyway?"... she responds "Oh I can't stand this!! Oh it's terrible!!" I put the ear phones in quickly and tuned her out.
Fittingly, she had the channel changed to the Food Network where a somewhat rotund woman was baking miniature muffins. As she tipped the baking pan over and all the little muffins tumbled out I could not help thinking of each muffin as carrying roughly the same level of discriminating brain power as that of the average American.
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Hee hee, harsh but true (and for American you can read Briton too).
ReplyDeleteShe'll wake up one day though (tooooo late!).
And now I'm going to check out Eve 6, never heard of them!