An Op-Ed

I've come across the latest catchphrase going around -- at least a phrase that has caught my attention:  Op-Ed.

Seems to be the latest tool used to reference facts.  As in, "So-and-so, contributor to this station by the way, has written a brilliant Op-Ed piece in the such-and-such paper.  Let's bring him/her on at this time to promote his/her new book and to further pile on someone whom we hate."

My, my.  These are troubled times.  Take this one, for example:

"The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope.  I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.  We use these words as if they were (obsolete) . . .  The Americans have little faith.  They rely on the power of the dollar; they are deaf to a sentiment."

So true, right?

Oh, by the way.  That "op-ed" piece was delivered on Janaruy 25, 1841!
Written by our old friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

Gazillions of things are going on in this world.  Sure, you can read about them, watch and listen about them, think about them and debate them all you want, but most of life is going to keep on happening without your thoughts being involved.  And, without the thoughts of some op-ed writer. 

Another catch phrase I love is from an AT&T television commercial.  AT&T highlights, in a series of hilarious new ads, that AT&T is America’s best network according to America’s biggest test.

Rooted in the idea that, when it comes to wireless networks, just OK is not OK, the spots feature people in different scenarios, realizing that they’re in trouble. One of them shows a young man in a tattoo parlor, about to get himself a tattoo. The tattoo artist, played by actor Blake Gibbons, asks him if it’s the first tattoo and urges him to relax because “it’s gonna look ok”. “Only ok?” the customer asks. “Don’t worry, boss. I’m one of the tattoo artists in the city,” the answers the tattoo artist. “You mean one of the best tattoo artists in the city, right?” the customer asks again, willing to know that he came to the right guy for a tattoo. The reply (“Something like that”) doesn’t come as a relief, though. Seeing the artist ready to use the tattoo machine, the customer asks him if he wasn’t supposed to draw the tattoo first, but is soon inflicted by pain and another unexpected answer: “Stay in your lane, bro!”

Awesome advice when it comes to news and op-eds.  Think I'll just "Stay in my lane, bro!"

Have a great weekend.

Carpe diem Life,
David Kuhn