February 14th is just around the corner. That's right. It's just another day, people! I saw an ad which was so dumb it made me feel sorry for the girl. The girl - a model - tried to simplify the concept of February 14th to the audience. She said, "[...] it's so simple. Give and you shall receive." Wow! Everything is so clear now. Give a diamond, have a ... ya know, it rhymes with DJ.
On Friday's broadcast of "Real Time", Bill Maher said, "... with Valentine's Day coming up; everyone must take a minute and remember their first love. I shall remember mine. I went off to college at 18. And I fell hard, not for a girl, that would have been my first choice. But I was a slow developer socially. Ya know those letters that collage guys send to Penthouse Magazine that begin,"I never thought that this would happen to me..." yeah, well that never happened to me. But I did fall. I did fall in love with books, and ideas, and knowledge [...].
But there is no doubt that it is a truly a kind of love affair when you go off to a place when you have intellectual epiphanies, because learning is so revered and the celebrities are the smartest people! [...] I got my mind blown on a regular basis. But you know, that was another country. One of the saddest things about the one that we live in now is we don't seem to want smart people in our lives anymore. Smart presidents? Cant have that. Scientists? What do they know? Newspaper editors? Liars, fake news!
You know, people used to get their news from newspapers. Because professional newsrooms took separating facts from fiction seriously, and employed people who had studied how to do that. But now people get their nows on Facebook by sharing, or as it used to called heresay. [...] We used to respect scientists... but now only 36% of Americans say they have a lot of trust that information from scientists is reliable; well, 98% of scientists say,"Humans evolved over the millennia", but that view is shared by not nearly as many real Americans. Trump supporters don't think species can change over time, but they do think Trump used to be all about himself, but now he's working for us. This Valentine's Day can we please fall in love with knowledge again?"
Can we?
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Thank you for sharing your insights and kind words, my dear Evangelina.
Pretty far-fetched, but if ya say so.
Same here, deare.
xoxo
First paragraph is all me, Luci. Bitter and jaded as always. Well, sometimes. :) C'mon! You ain't a lost cause. You bake "spidocake".
Fox News America.
Definitely not.
Thanks. Same here. Personally, I think Cupid's just a fat jerk with arrows.
Happy Valentine,s Day!