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- Ron Paul: Compassionless Conservative? (1)
badmedia: "Why is it automatically assumed that if he voted no, then he wants the worse and most radical things to happen? Thats a black and white way of…"
- What about the Rest of the First Amendment? (1)
david: "The power in shows like this is in the fact that they're shows: they're relatively easy to organize, the average IQ can be low, but the visual effect…"
- Attention Attraction for the Attention Deficient Generation (6)
Tom Smith: "I can see the appeal of "tuning out the world." But I can't say that I think it's a good thing. I really have no argument, convincing or otherwise,…"
Funky Dung: "I don't think your comment is off-topic at all. In fact, I think it addresses underlying societal issues and questions my post only begged. BTW, I…"
Ales Rarus
A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog
random thought of the moment:
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
— Groucho Marx
addiction
Attention Attraction for the Attention Deficient Generation
Andy Warhol famously quipped, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." His appraisal of the fleeting nature of fame was mostly right. However, he said that before the advent of repeated episodes, re-run and syndicated series, reality TV, blogs, and social networking. Had he seen these, perhaps he'd have suggested "15 episodes", […]
Poverty and Libertarianism
While personally admiring of some principles of libertarianism, I've tended to think of libertarians as the partisans of employed, healthy, childless, college educated people. That said, America's current political climate has had me rethinking my priorities for what should be done now.
Cigarettes Are Evil
Some good (but not great) news:"A federal judge ruled yesterday that tobacco companies have violated civil racketeering laws, concluding that cigarette makers conspired for decades to deceive the public about the dangers of their product and ordering the companies to make landmark changes in the way cigarettes are marketed.""But U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler said […]
Hooked
I can speak from personal experience about the addictive power of pornography, but I never knew it could be this bad. Television censors and the MPAA should take note of this.
Only 7, and he's addicted to porn
"KAOHSIUNG - A seven-year-old Taiwanese boy is getting expert help for his porn addiction."
