Living in a Digital Age

On TV, the CSI investigator needs to look up a bad guy’s record. She taps on the computer keyboard - tap, tap, and announces his entire life story thrown instantly onto the wall projector.

On TV, the president orders a B-52 strike; the four star general touches the keyboard - tap, tap.

Today, at Braums, I ordered a hamburger. The cashier entered the order - tap, tap, tap, tap, tap,tap, tap, tap, tap, tap,tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, backspace, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap,tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, backspace, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap,tap, tap, tap, tap, tap,tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, backspace, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap,tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, backspace tap, tap, tap, tap, tap,tap, tap, tap, tap, tap,tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, backspace, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap,tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, backspace tap, tap, tap, tap, tap,tap, tap, tap, tap, tap,tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, backspace, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap,tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, backspace.

“Do you want that with cheese?”

“No.”

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“That’ll be $3.19.”

“Er... And a coke.”

Yes, We Have No Bananas

I was in Back-Yard Burger the other day and decided to try their touted cobbler. “What kind do you have?” I asked. The cashier called to the back, “What kind of cobbler do we have today?” The manager answered “Today we have strawberry, raspberry, and apple.” I told the cashier, “I’ll have strawberry.” The manager overheard me and yelled from the back, “We don’t have strawberry.”

A Tragedy of Thought

I was at the airport recently and overheard a woman saying “I don’t let my children read Harry Potter. There are things in there that they don’t need to be thinking about.” I can understand her concern. If parents allow their children to think, they might grow into thinking adults, and what a tragedy that would be.

There are two groups in the US that are terrified of a thinking population: politicians and evangelical Christians. Who can blame them? A thinking population would not be so easily distracted from the real issues in our country and so foolishly focused on flag burning, prayer in school, gay marriage, and other non-issues that really have little or no real effect on their lives.

“Everything I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.” People actually believe this. We, as a nation, get what we deserve.