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Sunday, December 7, 2008

On being connected to popular culture

I am quite proud of my ability to say that my connection to popular culture is a bit tenuous. In spite of being highly curious about many things, I am also short of time. As a result, I do not seek it out. When it finds me, however, I find much of it to be jaw-dropping, and often entertaining, but still low on my priority list.

In spite all that, I am glad to be able to say that I do not meet this, perhaps slightly dated, test of an intellectual snob as proposed by former CBS News Anchor Dan Rather:

"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger."

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