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Posts published in “2000 December”

Overcommunicated, Overstimulated, and Underinformed

Column by Hal Walter

Mountan Life – December 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine

“Our priorities is our faith.”

— G.W. Bush, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000

ON THE MORNING AFTER the alleged election, I nearly set my house ablaze.

It wasn’t because a minority of Americans had apparently elected a new president who does not always display a grasp of subject-verb agreement. It was simply because I had become too distracted by CNN, the Internet, morning dishes, e-mail, braying jackasses, and the never-ceasing ring of the telephone to pay attention to the smoke signals that were coming out of my chimney, as though the college of cardinals had convened inside to elect a pope.