I don’t always agree with McCain’s politics, but he seems like a good fellow.
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Archive for April, 2007
Ed McMahon Did Not Sign The Constitution
On April - 24 - 2007
Something I found to be very disturbing came across my desk the other day. It was a comment written by someone I do not know, and have not met. It reads as follows:
“Thought: whatever the poison is, be it TV, the American Lie, public schools – the dosage is going up, and its reaching mortality sooner – in the teens and twenties”
Just to clarify the context, this statement is in regard to the recent Virginia Tech shootings.
I find this notion to be frightening and altogether absurd. We are facing serious problems as a culture, and as a race of beings for that matter, if all we can do is find a way to affix the causes of our tragedies to deep rooted social ills, and not to the *individual* who actually perpetrated the act.
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Thanks, Don
On April - 16 - 2007
I have a lot of fear for the future.
I wonder what will happen now that Don Imus has been fired. I myself being an avid fan of talk radio, as well as the occasional practitioner of it in the Internet, I can’t say that things are heading in the right direction. I have never seen an entire culture get so whipped up over something as nonsensical as ‘nappy headed ho’.
Yet, at the same time, as disturbing as the outcome of all this is, I have to sit back and laugh. Because now that it’s all said and done, the aforementioned phrase (which I still contend isn’t racist and now I can *really* prove it,) has been made culturally acceptable. Thank you Don Imus, for detoxifying what was left of an already benign phrase, and giving it back to the people. It shall now be used without discretion, and will become just as much a part of the American lexicon as “I’m Rick James, bitch!”
If you’re asking me how he did that, it’s very simple:
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