Babes on a Plane

She was beautiful and she sat down in the window seat in my row. As the plane got ready to take off I couldn't help but notice she had nothing to do. No book, no laptop, not even a magazine. As the flight went on she just stared at the seat in front of her, and then finally pulled out an ipod and just sat there, trance like.

It happened again the other day at the dentist. A very attractive blond (everyone is blond here in Utah by the way)college student came in and sat across from me in the waiting room. She had only her cell phone, clutched firmly in her hand like some sort of security blanket. She just sat there the whole time-staring straight ahead.

I wonder-is that the ideal for beautiful people now-to be as brain dead as Paris Hilton? In previous generations that was the stereotype-Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield were hardly known for their intelligence. But the current generation is known for not reading or thinking-beautiful or not. They are "successful" by their money making skills, involving computers or cell phones. And with Americans increasingly overweight and getting older, beauty and youth may be increasingly worshiped and adored. Thus, they don't need to aspire to much -just be.

So they sit there, doing nothing. And have dogs with brains the size of raisins.

While I, older and heavier, read my book on the American Revolution.

I wonder if they have a blog?