{"id":1593,"date":"2007-07-21T10:25:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T15:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/were-about-to-find-out-if-theyre-bleeders\/"},"modified":"2007-07-21T20:09:16","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T01:09:16","slug":"were-about-to-find-out-if-theyre-bleeders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/were-about-to-find-out-if-theyre-bleeders","title":{"rendered":"We’re about to find out if they’re bleeders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, one of the 2Blowhards wrote a post about the differences between Breeders & Non-Breeders<\/a>. One of the big questions is which side is more selfish.<\/p>\n

At present, I’m sitting in the President’s Club at the airport in Cleveland. There 7 or 8 other people here, mostly solo, awaiting flights. I was trying to read the book that I bought with me — Ian McEwan’s Saturday<\/a>, which opens with a vision of a flaming plane crash, as I discovered before takeoff yesterday — when a woman and her two young kids entered the lounge.<\/p>\n

Rather than go to the family room with them, mom and the loud, exuberant kids settled down about 20 feet away from me. She asked the kids what movie they wanted to watch. They settled on Flushed Away<\/a>, so she put the DVD in their laptop, and is now playing the movie at full volume, without headphones. She has a newspaper covering her face. Evidently, it’s one of those newfangled ones that blocks the daggers that I’m shooting at her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, one of the 2Blowhards wrote a post about the differences between Breeders & Non-Breeders. One of the big questions is which side is more selfish. At present, I’m sitting in the President’s Club at the airport in Cleveland. There 7 or 8 other people here, mostly solo, awaiting flights. I was trying … <\/p>\n

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