I was a radio DJ in the late 70’s through the 90’s and remember playing 45’s and 33’s. When a record got “cue hash” at the beginning (which it always did) we always had a 2nd copy. Every now and then, I’d go to the bathroom and come back to a skipping record.
I did mornings and made crank calls called “Rude Awakenings”. There was no caller ID so it was easy and fun!
We got fan mail, contest entries and complaints via snail mail.
By 1999 I was in talk radio and just getting into e-mail. It all went by so fast!
These little progressives would consider me a relic.
“five hundred cable channels, of which they will watch a handful, have always been the norm.”
IF the viewing public were permitted to OPT IN on channels buying only the ones they will view, Big Media would be largely defunded.
Viacom, Disney, Time-Lies-Warner LIKE bundling your program channels, getting a slice of your bill even when you don’t have their channels programmed into your remote.
“Russia has presumably never aimed nukes at the United States”
Even today Russia has its nuclear arsenal aimed at the United States. They have a doomsday device primed to launch a “response” at the US if nuclear detonations are detected. It was designed to override the insubordination of a Soviet who refused a “mutually assured destruction” launch order in the 1980s.
“They will now be awash with a computerized technology that will not distinguish information and knowledge. So it will be up to their professors to help them. A generation accustomed to instant access will need to acquire the patience of scholarship. They will discover how to research information in books and journals and not just on-line.”
This is pretty much Ray Bradbury’s point.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2572183/posts
Sci Fi Giant Ray Bradbury Slams Obama’s Era of Big Government
Publius Forum ^ | 08/17/10 | Warner Todd Huston
“We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many Internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now. “
“A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority…unless it involves ‘real’ aliens from another planet.”
I call “academic bias”
“Cross-burning has always been deemed protected speech.”
Um, that would be “flag burning”. What were the big cases on “cross burning” legality in the 1990s or 2000s?
“Czechoslovakia has never existed.”
By that turn of phrase, neither did the Berlin Wall.
“Potato has always ended in an “e” in New Jersey per vice presidential edict.”
And oral sex has never been sex, per presidential perjury.
One more thing this biased “study” neglected to mention, Rush Limbaugh has “always been equal time to the Mainstream media”.
“Rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties.”
Democrat presidents have always smoked pot and snorked rails of cocaine.
“Children have always been trying to divorce their parents.”
Are the adopted children of gay couple allowed to seek a divorce from their parents yet?
When students (sixth-graders) have to go to the office or restroom at the school, they must fill out a pass, which requires writing down the time, Steele said. Often, they stand beneath her classroom’s wall clock and stare at it uncomprehendingly, she said.
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