A haircut, in real life: "A person can't get a haircut on the Internet. That's a comfort in an increasingly impersonal world where just about everything else is for sale online and change roars by at a pace that can turn a person gray. . . No doubt someone is trying hard to invent the cyber cut."
Is the banality that pushed me too far? Not only did the International Herald Tribute deem it worthy to republish from the Boston Globe for the ex-pat crowd, but it fits squarely in the "the old ways were just fine/I'm scared of technology" mode that Andy Rooney has perfected and that lazy editors rely on for column inches. Really, once we can get haircuts on the internets, the very fabric of society will have already pulled apart.
