Anecdotes for a Nation
Three stories that could serve as devices to understand our times. Refer to this list when you’d like to encapsulate the state of the US and staring at a deadline:
- Someone is now a sponsored, professional line-sitter.
- Google now integrates drug information into related searches, for easy access.
- The new election demographic buzzword is “WalMart Moms.”
- Some cities (like Detroit) are planning for shrinkage, while other areas (like Arizona) are concocting structural efforts to keep out young, educated people who want to move here.
- The Tea Party decries the $20 billion fund set up by BP and the US Government, unaware of the irony of a group called the “Tea Party” supporting a British company which is dumping US goods into the ocean.
