{"id":1180,"date":"2006-11-01T09:41:19","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T14:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/usa-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2006-11-01T09:41:19","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T14:41:19","slug":"usa-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/usa-tomorrow","title":{"rendered":"USA Tomorrow?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the aspects of This Travelin’ Life that I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned is the complimentary copies of USA Today that hotels distribute. While it’s not a paper I read under typical circumstances, it’s kinda comforting to find the issue waiting outside my door when I head out for breakfast during these trade show trips. This morning, I took my copy down with me and read it over migas and coffee. Lots of coffee.<\/p>\n

The lead article in today’s Life section was “Mainline pulls in Protestants,”<\/a> discussing a trend that may or may not be occurring among christians. I wasn’t interested in reading it until I noticed the headline for the story on its second-page jump: “Like television, religion is now ‘highly fragmented'”.<\/p>\n

Those editors sure know how to get my attention.<\/p>\n

This almost got trumped by the two articles on page 2 of the business section: “Flat wages, rising key prices a double whammy” and “After trailing inflation, wages rise at fastest rate since 2004.”<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the absurdities and contradictions of USA Today’s headline writers was beaten by a giant ad in the News section:<\/p>\n

How To Be $1,835,360 Richer
\nWin 95.12% Of All Trades
\nAnd Still Lose Nothing . . .
\nEven If You’re Absolutely 100% Wrong<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the plus side, the paper did tell me that PW Botha died.<\/p>\n

The conference wraps up today, and I’ll be flying back into Newark Airport tonight. Which airport is that? Oh, you know: the one where they had a 90% failure rate in finding knives & explosives in check-in bags during a test<\/a>, where two jets just “bumped wings” on the taxiway<\/a>, and where an incoming plane from Orlando landed on the taxiway instead of the runway<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, and I’ll be flying to Orlando next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the aspects of This Travelin’ Life that I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned is the complimentary copies of USA Today that hotels distribute. While it’s not a paper I read under typical circumstances, it’s kinda comforting to find the issue waiting outside my door when I head out for breakfast during these trade … <\/p>\n

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