Lazy Thinking

Future hard-working American?

There is an ad for a robotic vacuum cleaner in today's Wall Street Journal. It claims that for a mere $699.95 you can get a device that moves 50% more dirt than the last model, and without even getting up off your ass. It can be programmed to clean up to seven times a week, on hardwood floors or carpets, and every one of those times you can just lie there like a lox. Or else you can go to the gym while the Superior Suction Room to Room Roomba 880 does your work for you and exercise without even accomplishing anything else at the same time.

I find the very existence of this item a sure sign that things are going downhill fast for Mankind. Another sure sign is that law students at Harvard University "traumatized" by the non-punishment of the white cops in the cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, who were out chanting "I can't breathe" and bouncing signs in the air saying "Black lives matter" instead of studying for their finals, are being allowed to take those exams at a later date. Seriously -- they were just too upset to study.

Seems to me that if black lives matter so much, one would be motivated to study extra hard and extra long and get that law degree even sooner, and then go out and defend some of them who have been wrongly accused and jailed. I don't know why, but the whole thing smacks of the Roomba 880.