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2015-08-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Jonathan Franzen spent 6 weeks thinking about adopting an Iraqi orphan

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Posted by Fred 2015-08-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Another "Public" "Intellectual"?

Posted by AlanC 2015-08-22 08:39|| 2015-08-22 08:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe these two moronic members of the intelligentsia should have adopted a little boy-killer/beheader from ISIS? They wouldn't get bored after 6 weeks (if they lasted that long).

Posted by JohnQC 2015-08-22 09:05|| 2015-08-22 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 56 is a bit young to be all "get off my lawn" and shit

Posted by Frank G 2015-08-22 10:51|| 2015-08-22 10:51|| Front Page Top

#4 I googled it. Wikipedia has a summary of the plot and a selection of reviews, the raves of which are predictable, the pans quietly scathing to my eye. link

It sounds like it was written by a smug, over-educated, under-brained pseudo-intellectual with considerably more technique than talent for an audience of much the same, all engaged in sneering at the strawmen they firmly believe their neighbours to be.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-08-22 10:54|| 2015-08-22 10:54|| Front Page Top

#5 “One of the things that had put me in mind of adoption was a sense of alienation from the younger generation,”

Can't master facebook?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-08-22 10:57|| 2015-08-22 10:57|| Front Page Top

#6 A producer of mindless crap, beloved by the usual suspects...

Posted by M. Murcek 2015-08-22 10:59|| 2015-08-22 10:59|| Front Page Top

#7 The leftist progressives will give just about the same credit for thinking and talking about adoption as actually adopting.

Posted by airandee 2015-08-22 20:15|| 2015-08-22 20:15|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm coming to the view that 'we meant well' ranks up there with 'I was only obeying orders'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-08-22 23:20|| 2015-08-22 23:20|| Front Page Top

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