Makes me want to quit blogging

This item on CNN's landing page..

...makes me feel like blogging is a joke instead of a legitimate means of expression. It's the old dictum that I don't want to belong to a club that would have someone like this as a member. Am I being a big baby again?

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I just read a convincing and sobering report. Because of the advent of electronic communications, teaching cursive handwriting is no longer considered a priority in schools. Classes have been dramatically cut back and will eventually be eliminated altogether.

Cursive writing will go the way of Morris code and the DuMont television network and vanish. It will become a relic of a bygone era that only hobbyists will practice. That's a little sad.

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An Unbearable birthday tip 'o the hat to the lovely, lively Mrs. Wife. How do you do it? Do you have an aging portrait somewhere in that crawl space behind the linen?

Unbearable personal factoid: I am 14 years older than Mrs. Wife. It works for us!