There is a hyperbolic sensibility at work here in some of these blog entries, a sensibility that seems to border on the hysterical. This morning, Sara Butler announced that in our "consumerist" society, "we are consumers first, and then fathers or mothers, Presbyterians or Baptists, 'crunchy' or 'mainstream' conservatives." To which the only possible response is to blow a giant raspberry as a means of suppressing the impulse to put one's fist through the computer screen. Honestly, how dare you write such a thing, Sara Butler? How dare you presume to make a blanket statement about American parents in this fashion? There are 300 million people living in the United States. "We" aren't anything "first." We contain multitudes. If this kind of nonsense is what crunchiness leads to, then I say to hell with it. Seriously.
