No country for old men

Yes, reading books is a slow, time-consuming, and often tedious process. In comparison, surfing the Internet is a quick, distracting activity in which one searches for a specific subject, finds it, and then reads about it—often by skipping a great deal of material and absorbing only pertinent fragments. Books require patience, sustained attention to what is on the page, and frequent rest periods for reverie, so that the meaning of what we are reading settles in and makes its full impact.

How many book lovers among the young has the Internet produced? Far fewer, I suspect, than the millions libraries have turned out over the last hundred years. Their slow disappearance is a tragedy, not just for those impoverished towns and cities, but for everyone everywhere terrified at the thought of a country without libraries.

--Charles Simic.

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It is a culture uninterested in qualifications and concerned only with satisfying raw emotional need.
--The Telegraph.

Dylan! FFS! Now, I've got nothing against white people per se (some of my best friends are white) but, come on. Seriously? "A great poet in the English-speaking tradition". Okay, if Obama can win a Nobel for, well, for just being black, I suppose anything is possible.

Michelle nailed it last night. Pure cynical politics at its finest. For a while I was taken in and thought she was actually serious but when she started off on "the need for healing," harping on about how Hillary is the person to unite a "divided nation" I rolled over laughing at my own gullibility. The machine is going for the jugular and with Wall St. behind her Trump ain't nothing but a small-time, small-town chump. American democracy is WWF taken to another level! There ain't no business like show business.