Is the politics of fear spreading?

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

And here's when the age thing slaps me in the face. There was no CNN when I was a kid.

Today I had reason to be standing in line behind a bunch of teenagers on lunch from school.

They were making fun of the way someone talked and one said "he talks like the guy in that old movie. You know, it had Austin Powers in it but he had straight black hair."

Yes, that "old movie" Wayne's World. Nobody in the crowd could think of the title and I wasn't going to pipe up and cement my decrepitude.

[katiesue]

Who Jessica Simpson might be dating shouldn't be on cnn.com's front page either but there you go.

[katiesue]

News was only on for an hour when I was a kid. And they only broadcast live coverage if it actually was important.