Today's "I See Rude People" Quote
Just love the name of the column -- John Wilcock's "The Column of Lasting Insignificance." Here's the quote he pulled from my book, I SEE RUDE PEOPLE: One woman's battle to beat some manners into impolite society:

"An aggressive lack of consideration for others is spreading across the country (and) although people are quick to blame rampant rudeness on advances in technology, the truth is, rudeness is the human condition...We modern humans are a bunch of self-involved jerks, the same as generations of humans before us. We're guided by quaint Stone Age brains suited to manage social interactions within a small tribe--yet we're living in endlessly sprawling areas that would more accurately be called 'stranger-hoods' than neighborhoods."

--flame-haired syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon in her book I See Rude People.