This is a good article, but it is about three years old. It has been circulated around the world dozens of times and has been posted here several times.
Still a good read, but kinda worn.
"Still a good read, but kinda worn."
I'd have to disagree. An article like this continues to be fresh. The sentiment is spot on, and it's a message we don't hear often enough.
And the close posted here is different from the source document at http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Morton/Archive/2003/031220.html
Here's what I like about Ben Stein. I e-mailed him when I first read this online. I told him that my father was a hero for his service with the USMC in Korea, and the USAF in Vietnam, and that my mother was a hero for supporting dad while he was in Korea and in Vietnam and for supporting me when I was in the first Gulf.
He e-mailed me back within about 30-45 minutes of my writing to him, telling me that I was a hero too for my service to my country, but that he understood that it wasn't something I was going to say for myself.
I was impressed by how quickly he responded, and by the fact that it wasn't a boilerplate autoresponder - but that it was by him.
I think he still writes a column for American Spectator. His views remind one that the ideology of the Hollywood crowd is phoney, absurd, materialistic and really not worth portraying as character building. Stein realizes this as so many Americans do not!