#5 RWE

I have the same experiences, people who will not pick up the phone or answer email. IM seems better with the yutes of today. I have neighbors who will step over piles of newspapers mistakenly delivered to their door over days and weeks, rather than either read them or at least trash them.

But I would warn you not to make the opposite mistake, which is all too easy today, of thinking that it was not always difficult to make the right contacts and get good responses. We all tend to want to click and have the answer, to think there *is* an answer, when in fact we are being paid to pull together a lot of weak strings and fragile pieces.

Obama makes this second mistake, he repeatedly says all he has to do is dream, and his flunkies, or America, or Allah, will make it so.

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And oh yeah, Michael Jackson? I don’t think he was captured as such, more like he just got old and worn and weird, and if anything the entourage just hid the fact that he was entirely over and if anything in need of help, though of probably just the kind he would reject, had always rejected, no matter how seldom offered.