More than 2000 years ago, the Roman orator Cicero wrote: "Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." It's amazing how little has changed.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing
a book. --Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator and writer (106-43 BCE)
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imes were bad two thousand y
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Said C
icero, just take a l
ook:
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ildren don't obey their p
arents
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And everyone is writing a b
ook.
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Well it's b
een a long time since
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ome
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But look ar
ound and you can see it pl
ain
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We're in a m
oral decline never m
ind we're feeling fine
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And we're wh
istling the same old refr
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es, these are terrible times that we l
ive in
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Soc
iety is going to the d
ogs
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ildren don't obey their p
arents
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And everyone is wr
iting bl
ogs.
Once a website used to take a lot of work;
Now blogging software makes it a snap
You just type and click and it's published--
No matter if it's nothing but crap.
What you write doesn't have to be clever
Or interesting, or true;
Join a blog site for free write your own in PHP
Start a web log today any idiot can play
And ninety-nine percent of them do.
So now we're living in the blogosphere
Where everyone can write what they please
Consuming half the traffic on the internet
Well, at least they aren't cutting down trees
So come on, all you need is a browser
And a couple dead horses to flog
If your kids don't obey at least there's something you can say
They can't see you're a dog if you're writing in your blog
If you like these songs of mine you know the lyrics are online
And I'm posting all the links in my blog.
Note for the irony-impaired: I do, in fact, have a blog, located at:
mdlbear.livejournal.com; writing this
song made me realize that I needed a script to format concert setlists for
easy posting. The revised quotation comes from
Simon Bisson's blog.
