Three articles in your Feb. 17 edition drew my attention.
In “The Buzz”, Mark Carlson notes, “… But one child, little Rushy Limbaugh, age 9, wrote he thinks Obama needs to fail miserably at everything and slink off into the margins of history, at first reviled, and then forgotten.” In checking the 2008 presidential election popular vote results, my guess is there’s nearly 60 million people that might agree with little Rushy’s perspective.
“Cuts hit where it hurts” discusses the Volunteers of America cutting a program that provides child care to parents going back to college and the impact to a single mom, age 24, pursuing an anthropology major at the University of Washington. What is wrong with this situation? I would bet if little Rushy were to assess the root cause of the situation he would have this simple advice: “abstinence, marriage, real career.”
Lastly, “Cookbooks can make you fat, study concludes” really made me scratch my head and think about how little Rushy might weigh in on personal responsibility. Just guessing, but Little Rushy would probably say, “Then stop eating the cookbooks, stupid.”
Where have all the little Rushys, wise beyond their years, gone? Am I sensing a little journalistic envy, Mark?
Dan Pedersen
Snohomish
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