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(Important note: All misspellings in this piece of work are intentional just for the hick of it. Misspellings are my way of making my writings unique - you know, like a signature.)

I just love Al Gore

With people going to the internet for news, the newspapers are seemingly on the way out. That’s okie with me. I live in a remote area of Arizona where newspapers don’t come. All that comes here is the sun and the wind. If not for modern technology my wife and I would have stayed in the Phoenix metropolitan area. We wouldn’t have our four dogs either.

Now we have all the connections with the “real world” (what a dumb term but I use it along with the best and the brightest although I’m not either) thanks to satellites for they shoot internet and television signals to me. And, to my wife and our four dogs.

My no longers
With online news, I no longer have to read news that I saw on the boob toob the night before. I now longer have a free loader looking over my shoulder while riding the bus as I did for a ten or so year period while living and working in the Phoenix area. I no longer have to go down the block with 50 cents to buy a newspaper because some kid messed up my delivery. I really can’t be sure a kid messed up the delivery but that’s what the man at the circulation department always told me.

I could ramble all day about the “no longers” but why? After all, I doubt my newspaper experiences are much different than yours. You already know about no longers.

Convenience
It is so nice to pick and choose what I want to read with a gentle tap on my mouse instead of turning page after page of a newspaper spread out over an entire kitchen table. Or trying to turn an uncooperative page blowing in the wind. It’s a link, link, link world. I like it. All these links permit me to quickly go from one online newspaper to another without cost. I like it.

Hey, perhaps one of the best things about online reading is that we can find old stories easier. You know, by looking in Google, not in the garage or in the attic.

Stopping the freeloaders
Online news has stopped the card-carrying screw-the-next guy folks around us too. You know them. They’re the ones who beat you to the Sunday coupons but graciously leave the rest of the paper for you just in case all the other papers sell out.

Ha! I remember watching a woman sorting through the unsold Sunday newspapers in a convenience store around midnight. The clerk told her she couldn’t take them with her. She asked why not because “nobody will want them now.” The clerk told her to buy the whole paper so the store could make a profit. She left without. Beautiful, simply beautiful.

If I were not such a nice sensitive and compassionate person I would have have asked the bag what I was thinking at the time. "Hey there, woman, using your logic why don't you find a nice lady for your husband. He probably doesn't want you now either." I thought about it but, instead, I took the easy way out by saying nothing.

Oh, yeah. I just thought of another “no longer.” No longer ink on my fingers or, as was the case when I went to work daily, on my white shirt. Ah! Life is good.

Want it? It's online
A bummer you argue because you like the classified ads? Naw, not really. Classified ads are online too. At Craigslist for one place. Unlike the newspaper ads, you can get anything you want from a handy dandy man to a handy hit man via Craigslist.

Anything that comes in print can come online. Puzzles, cartoons, gossip and more. Anything and everything. There for the asking.

But, wait there’s more. This transformation should make all environmentalist extremely happy. Look at all the trees we will save, a number estimated to be somewhere upward. How’s that for preciseness?

Downside effect
There is a serious downside though. Jobs, those needed for newspaper printing will be lost. It is something we will overcome as we overcame jobs lost in earlier days because of technological advancements. When the automobile came stage coach builders were hurt as were watch repairman when less expensive quartz movements became popular.

More hurt will come too. That’s what advancement does, like it or not. Gasoline and diesel engine makers will be hurting when solar and wind take over. It will happen too even though not in many of our lifetimes.

Anyway, it’s true
I just love Al Gore (tongue in cheek) even though he is a democrat. I love Rush Limbaugh too because it was Rush who I first heard say “Algore” invented the internet. That’s an amusing story in itself. You should “Read all About It!!” as the news vendors say - but online of course. Use Google.

See you in the funny papers. Not!
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