Briefly Noted (by the vacationing editor)

“People think these poor people are just lazy and dumb, but I see these people working harder than I’ve ever worked in my life. I can guarantee you that if being lazy and dumb was criteria for who’s poor and who’s rich, things would be very different in this country.”

John Scalzi, as quoted in the AP story about his essay “Being Poor.”

25 September 2005 | uncategorized |