Thursday, December 07, 2006

How We Went From World's Beat Cop
To Widely Ignored Substitute Teacher

'We used to be the world's beat cop. Today, we're like the global substitute teacher--nobody listens to us...It's only Great Britain that even pretends to care what we say.'
--Chicago humorist Aaron Freeman, making a serious if unfortunate point recently on NPR.

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