Newspaper Fossils

Last Friday my wife brought PrincessC-Nut into work. That was one of my daughter's rewards for potty training graduation.

Mrs. C-Nut informed me that on the train ride in, our 2.83 year old daughter pointed to a queer 'old coot' on the train reading a newspaper and asked:

What's that?

Now an extended answer to that question might have mentioned: a *dejected wage slave*, an *empty skull* who's researching *what he's supposed to think*, or a calcified *creature of habit*.

But my daughter was really just curious about what the large paper object was.

I do consider my daughter's ignorance of newspapers a victory of parenting. My father used to tote his local agitprop all the way out to my house but I forbade him from taking it out of his car. Seriously. The idea that my own father, an unwitting statist supporter, PAID everyday an organization to DEFORM his mind and SUPPRESS his life politically and economically remains tough for this son of his to swallow.

And man, have newspapers gotten a pass on *tree killing* over the years or what?

So, in conclusion, if your little ones grow up aware of newspapers....that could explain while they'll lag mine on both standardized and non-standardized tests.