Local News Article on DART Buses

[tree_lady]

"An Inconvenient Journey" by SUMMER HARLOW • The News Journal • June 16, 2008

Joanne sent me a link

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200806160345/NEWS02/806160332

to this article Monday night. She wrote,
"I

Comments

Re: Cleverness disguised as criticism

[tree_lady]

"what passes for TV that young people watch, the dialog is all about cut-downs

[hummingwolf]

If you are so broke at 65 that you ride a bus, you better reexamine your investment portfolio

Lovely. Just lovely.

It might be more accurate to say that some people seem incapable of thinking outside of their own frame of reference.

A friend once said about someone, "Her reality bubble is a little bit too opaque." It's a good way of saying it, don't you think?

reality bubble

[tree_lady]

That is just great! I may have to share that!

I know some people on the LGG list who sometimes talk about the White Picket Culture and the people in it who each live in their own little bubble. In that case, they're talking about people who don't want to read books in which anything disturbing happens.

S

[mult1pa55]

Summer Harlow sounds like an assumed name. Or like something out of a Harlequin romance novel. Ha.

Yup!

[tree_lady]

Couldn't agree more. OTOH, I don't see the stodgy News Journal letting a reporter use a handle like that.

Names like "Summer" make me think of people like "River" Phoenix which makes me think of all us hippy-types, Jesus Freaks, and so on, way back when.

S