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The Times Poll Proves Americans Are Utterly Clueless About Politics
And then it spins parts of it in Fox News style, helping clueless Americans ‘formulate their opinions.’
My maternal grandmother was a selfless human being who worked her entire life serving people. Born at a time when finishing high school was like a post-graduate degree nowadays, she always needed guidance when it came to figuring stuff out politically. Nonetheless, she had her ears to the tracks regarding whether a person was inherently good or bad.
My grandmother was never young for me. She was always an “old lady,” or, as the two of one day decided, “She was as old as dirt.”
Sitting on the front porch of her home one day in Freehold, New Jersey, she looked over at me — I was about 10 — and said, “Boy, let me tell you this, getting old ain’t no fun. I feel as old as dirt.” At first, shocked by her admission, she pointed to a pile of fertilizing dirt spread out on the little speck of grass she called a front lawn — it was about two feet wide and six feet long — and said, “See that pile of shitty dirt there. That’s how you feel pretty much every morning until mid-afternoon when you get old. I feel like shit.” Then, we both started laughing our asses off. She would laugh until tears rolled down her cheeks and…
