Sunday’s child
Sprouted early this a.m. to scrounge up the Sunday Inquirer, mostly because a little bird told me there’d be a column of interest to a local blogger like myself.
Turns out, Chris Satullo, the Inqy editorial page editor, ran a nice piece on Above Average Jane’s quest for answers to the civics question, “What’s our part of the bargain?” A well-deserved kudos to Jane for being one of the voices in the wilderness of blogging actually trying to initiate a real dialogue. (I’d say that’s why she rises to the top of my local blogroll in the sidebar, but it’s actually just an alphabetic coincidence.)
Satullo’s piece only annoys on one level, in that he does not credit the excerpts he pulls from some of the responses Jane received (which probably only registers with me because he pulled a whopping four words from my response for use as a convenient segue). But it’s still worth a look. I also encourage you to browse the responses to Jane’s question.
And in an aside, kudos to Chris Satullo, for correctly noting in the opening of his column that today, not July 4, is the actual anniversary of the decision to declare independence. (July 4 was simply the day the paperwork got filed, so to speak.)
And why is that last bit important? -just vanity I suppose. Though while I’m on that subject, I should probably give props to my mother on the 34th anniversary of what must have been 28 of the most difficult hours she’s ever endured. Way to go mom!
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