I was listening to an old song on the radio yesterday. "Why did I tell you I was going to Shanghai?," sang Doris Day. "I'm just around the corner in a phone booth and I wanna be with you tonight."
Headline in today's Journal: "Qwest Sells Its Pay Phones." The company said they simply don't fit into a wireless future.
And when was the last time you used a pay phone?
Yeah. Change is the only constant.
But wait. Some things never go away. Like stupidity of the murderous kind. Clifford Holliday, a World War I veteran, died at 105. He fought at Ypres, among other storied battles, says the obituary.
Holliday, born in Canada, once told the Toronto Globe and Mail he was relieved to get out of the fighting when wounded.
"Anybody who wants war is just a few steps our of the caveman age," he said. "Nobody can go through that and wish it on the human race again."
Yeah, it matters that the President, Vice-President, Secretary of Defense and National Security Advisor never went to war.