[freepatriot32]

The sky is falling the sky is falling lord all mighty the sky is falling lets all move back into caves and only use bonfires started with flint and steel to heat and cook with

I made a joke about a month or two ago on a nanny state do gooder thread about the biggest danger to world health is history books because everyonethat reads them eventually dies. Now today i see this quote about comic books. The really bad part is the guy probably had a straight face the whole time he was spewing out that crap. Hell he might even actually believe what he said although I really hope he didnt.

[freepatriot32]

two centurys of the nanny state ping

[cripplecreek]

What's next, horseless carriages and flyin machines?

[SoothingDave]

Are you sure this is really breaking news?

SD

[Grizzled Bear]

smoking pot obviously leads to harder drugs
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And eating lots of twinkies...

[SittinYonder]

In each case they are correct ... had it not been for the waltz society would not have advanced to such a point where we see today large percentages of unwed women giving birth.

[A message]

I'm closely involved in the comic book industry. I guess I should be... hold on a sec. gurgle,gurgle,gurgle, cough cough... ok, what was I saying? Oh yea, wasted.

Librarians these days are all talking about GNs and illustrated comic books. Look at the bays that Borders and Barnes and Nobles devote to the products of the comic industry. Where would Hollywood get new ideas if it wasn't for the art and literary form of comic books.

Comic books have never been more interesting or better than they are today.

I just finished a comic book by Jean Phillipe Stassen that discussed the Rwanda genocide. Another of my current favorite books is Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi that looks into her life as a young girl growing up in Mullah dominated Iran.

Comics more than ever are just books that are illustrated.

[A CA Guy]

smoking pot obviously leads to harder drugs

Seems to go that way, some seem to stay in politics and push recreational drugs also. A true waste of life.

[Gay State Conservative]

Although it's unlikely that all who smoke grass eventually wind up on crack/meth/heroin,I'll wager that the huge majority of those on the hard stuff started with grass.

[traviskicks]

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[Hemingway's Ghost]

!!!!!!!

Good stuff, my friend.

[Gone GF]

"Comic Books

"Many adults think that the crimes described in comic books are so far removed from the child's life that for children they are merely something imaginative or fantastic. But we have found this to be a great error. Comic books and life are connected. A bank robbery is easily translated into the rifling of a candy store. Delinquencies formerly restricted to adults are increasingly committed by young people and children ... All child drug addicts, and all children drawn into the narcotics traffic as messengers, with whom we have had contact, were inveterate comic-book readers This kind of thing is not good mental nourishment for children!" - Fredric Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent, 1954 "

As a former comic book collector I actually have a 1954 copy of this book (although not the very most valuable edition). Wertham might have used some exaggeration or hyperbole, but I don't think there's any question he believed that comic books were going to destroy our children.

[noblejones]

Whoa, dude.

Your head is really big.

Dude.