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What about the children?!?
This is the lede of the front page, top-of-the-fold story in today's Boston Globe:
"Robin O’Neill wants to leave the earth a healthy place for her three children. But what good is a thriving planet, the North Andover mother asks, if her kids are forced to live in a home lighted by bulbs that are energy efficient but ruin the look of the dining room chandelier, or take forever to get bright?"
I mean really. How many times have you walked into someone's home and thought: "That chandelier would be beautiful, except the lighting is all wrong!!" and then just stormed out indignantly?
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I'm not sure I've ever read condescending lead-in to a story. Makes you wonder if Ms. O'Neill is really that stuck-up and clueless or if the person writing the article realized what a bitch she was and intentionally wrote the opening to make her sound as bad as possibile.
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"the person writing the article"
Though I've never met Beth Teitell, I know enough Globies who have told me she's not intelligent enough to be insincere. I was kind of surprised to see her byline above that story. Her schtick is usually the whimsical-musings-of-the-21st-century-woman-with-the-minivan-who-has-to-pick-up-all-four-kids-kids-from-soccer-practice-at-four-different-places-at-the-same-time-isn't-life-hectic-ha-ha-ha-ha - the self-indulgent crap that usually ends up on the back page of the entertainment section.
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Re: What about the children?!?
artie_fufkin wrote:
I mean really. How many times have you walked into someone's home and thought: "That chandelier would be beautiful, except the lighting is all wrong!!" and then just stormed out indignantly?
Far fewer times than I have walked into a home and said to my wife in Indonesian, "God, that's a fucking ugly chandelier. Promise me we will never own a chandelier."