Dave Weigel pursues that latest and hottest of Washington stories: that Lindsey Graham doesn't use email. The Bloomberg reporter gets a quote from the senator:
I've tried not to have a system where I can just say the first dumb thing that comes to my mind.
We can all attest to that. Sen. Graham always pauses and thinks before saying something dumb.
Still, as a fellow semi-Luddite, I wish also to speak in Graham's defense. I do use email, but I may be the last American standing who doesn't use a cell phone. It is doable, and to me, anyway, quite sane.
At my daughter's pleading behest, I owned one years ago, and I found it a pain in the butt. Do I have my cell phone on me? Did I leave my cell phone in the restaurant? Is my cell phone charged? and so on. Yet not once did I actually need the bothersome thing. The technological nuisance and I soon parted ways.
Last year, before my daughter and I embarked on a day's shopping trip to Chicago, I again at her behest bought a Trac phone so that she could, well, keep trac of me, as we wandered separately throughout our excursions. Fifty or sixty bucks it came to, and on it we had, as I recall, one 10-second conversation: something along the lines of, Meet you at 4 at the coffee shop two blocks west of Macy's. I could have sent a telegram for less than that. STOP.
Which is what I did with the damned thing when we got home. There it now sits, unused and uncharged, gathering dust. And yet somehow I manage.
Sen. Graham, I salute your refusal to bow to so-called modern essentials. Their indispensability is mostly in our heads.
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