[MD] Rightwing Radio Confirms Pirsig

[Case]

[Arlo]
Today on the Glenn Beck show, which I listen to occasionally when in auto,
the pundit was discussing a new study that shows "Americans have a third
fewer close friends and confidants than just two decades ago  a sign that
people may be living lonelier, more isolated lives than in the past."
[snip]
TIME Magazine columnist Po Bronson recently examined the net drop in use of
vacation time
(http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1205369,00.html),
reporting that "only 14% of Americans will take a vacation two weeks or
longer this summer". (Ant and others who have read The Ragged Trousered
Philanthropists will recognize the workers' aim to "get back some of our
own" in this passage.
"We might even prefer these brief snippets of "stolen time" to the long
stretches of authorized vacation. We find it more fun--and more
satisfying--to goof off when we're supposed to be working or running
errands. It's our way of getting even.")

At any rate, its good to see not only right-wing radio acknowledging the
detioration Pirsig wrote of so long ago, but also the "frontier" and
"Victorian" schism where this problem is manifest. "That's why I've always
liked the midwest", Beck said. Now if he'd read Pirsig, he'd have a language
with which to better understand what he's noticed here.

[Case]
I posted a link to your first article a week or so ago when you were talking
about porches. It is sad that the party of "family values" rejoices when
productivity increase since this usually corresponds to a decrease in
quality family time.

Speaking of rightwing radio pundits did you see that Limbaugh got busted for
trying to smuggle in a bottle of suspicious Viagra on his way home from a
trip to the Dominican Republic. Isn't he already on probation or something?
I guess he needs a stiffer penalty for this infraction. Anyone who listens
to his arguments on the radio already knows he should be charged with
assault with a dead weapon. 

He must have learned from his previous drug escapades that oxycontin is not
a cure for Mycoxafailin.