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Lea & Liz: Scrapbook slack

November 5th, 2007

I, like Lea, love scrapbooking. Unlike Lea, however, it never actually gets in a scrapbook. (Is too still scrapbooking.)

Pop quiz: Do you remember which one of us is a Democrat and which a Republican. Hint: Study pictures.

I want to be Lea, really I do. I’m just not.

Quickly changing the subject from my maternal incompetence, we have suspected something all along, but we’ve now got proof positive that Newsweek is reading the Village Square blog, no less than a stolen story idea, and we’ve caught them red-handed.

If scrapbooking conjures up images of kindly suburban women passing pictures around the kitchen table, then you don’t know the modern hobby. . . it is a cutthroat business.

(New York Times, Washington Post, we’re watching you. . . )

If we really want to put our finger on the pulse of what’s fueling our current lack of civility, there’s got to be some insight in this scrapbook story somewhere. I think a good hefty majority of us would agree that this isn’t exactly America putting our best foot forward. How can we lead the free world when we can’t scrapbook without plunging zig-zig scissors into suburban eyeballs or knocking teeth out with butterfly-shaped paper punches?

At least the end of civilization will be decorative.

-Liz
(whose negligence in scrapbooking was actually prophetic moral superiority**)

**Footnote on moral superiority: As the administrator of this blog, I have the power (muah ha ha) to change the dates on posts, which I have done without a second thought on this post to cover for my negligence in not actually answering Lea’s post for a full week and a half. Because of my high moral standards, I confessed to Lea that in doing so I would have to lie to you, our readership (pish, not you Newsweek). Lea advised me that this wasn’t lying, it was blying, being on a blog as it is. And my mother never once told me not to blie.

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