November 29, 2008
The more things change, the more they stay insane: The elegant Webutante relays this bit of conversation "Over Breakfast Today"This morning over breakfast one of my favorite relatives turned to me as he smeared strawberry jam on his raisin toast, "I say, my dear, this attack in Mumbai, India worries me a lot."That bookends quite nicely with this:Americans maintain pre-Obama levels of self-centeredness
The economic meltdown hasn't altered Americans' self-centered world view. (yay?) According to Buzzfeed, America's top five Google searches during the Mumbai attacks included "sears, pam dawber, mork and mindy." Two victims of the Mumbai attacks were Americans Alan Scherr and his daughter Naomi. The pair were traveling with a religious group called the "Synchronicity Foundation," which managed to be the 4th most popular search term.
Posted by Vanderleun at November 29, 2008 1:07 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.