From a reader:
"My employer (Verizon Wireless) sent out an all-employee email today telling us that the company takes racism very seriously and that we haven’t advertised on the Imus show for over 3 years! Apparently there were rumors floating around that Verizon was a supporter of the Imus show and they just wanted to set the record straight."
The reader mentions how the little minds of the world always seem to turn non-isues into gargantuan issues. Well, people make nothing into something because they are bored little twits with nothing better to do with their time. They look for moments when they can be victims or create conflict. Both victimhood and perpetual conflict will fill up some of that downtime.
I remember my Dad always saying that the most dangerous people were the ones with too much idle time. Criminals, troublemakers, the voluntarily unemployed, lifestyle nazis, and assorted interfering busybodies -- they all have the "problem" of too much time, too few goals, too little ambition. As to my Dad's words from decades ago, I have found no truer words throughout my adulthood.
