Monday, May 02, 2005
Boring news day
It's a really boring newsday. Nothing interesting in The Daily Cal. The Bruin is handing out endorsements, so nothing to laugh at there. Instead, catch this gem from The Boston Globe:
IT WAS, as always, a pleasure to pick up the op-ed page and be lectured (this time in a Derrick Jackson column) about how Americans are uncurious and ignorant about the world ("The insular American," April 29).
Nigerian playwright and Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka, whom Jackson interviewed, feels that Americans are so behind in their knowledge that they'd better start with something as basic as geography -- understanding, for example, "why Eskimos live in igloos."
Soyinka might be surprised to hear that Eskimos don't live in igloos but use them as hunting lodges. The rest of us might wonder how Soyinka became so certain of the ignorance of others.
BRENDAN O'BRIEN
Haverhill
Update: In the period over which I wrote this post, The Globe added registration to their website. *sigh*
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