Rain all day. Unfortunately this was the day for the annual National Book Fair on the Mall. I walked down there in a light drizzle around 11:00 and much to my surprise found the largest crowd I remember seeing at one of these events. The lines were so long I couldn't even get into the tent that was selling the books available for signing. People standing in line for book signings must have had an hour or more per author. All the presentation tents were full with people overflowing outside the tent walls and listening to presentations via loudspeakers. At some points it was like a flat tower of babble with all the competing speakers cancelling one another out.
So, tell me again how nobody reads anymore.
I've been reading about Harding University on the Internet this week after being reminded that Glen Beck's inspiration for his current round of conspiracy theories is Cleon Skousen's books and that Skousen was a frequent speaker at Harding's various right wing / anti-communist forums when I was there in my early college years. I had hoped things would have changed more over the last four decades. Alas.
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