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I've been pondering the same question all night. Even to the point of writing a "rant" in my head. It seems EVERY aspect of our lives is inundated with pure garbage.

Sometimes silly things get me going: tonight my teenage daughter said her English teacher uses the phrases "pissed off" "freakin'" and "friggin'" all the time. At the bottom of his monthly info email to parents is the quote: ' "There is no right way to live"- Ishmael.'

Maybe I'm just getting old, but my tolerance threshold is inching towards "POSTAL".

Some years ago, before I retired from the military, my last duty station was at TELCOM in DC. This was back in 93. If you remember PC's and the internet back then, it was pretty basic. We used Lotus cc:Mail. There was some woman who would do a daily quote of the day thing and send it to all throughout the command. It was the usual hippy, peace, love, brotherhood bs that nobody got too concerned with. About a month or so after I was there, she put up a quote from Chairman Mao. Here I am, a RM1 in the US Navy, and I have to read some puke quote about peace from a man who killed millions of his own people, and if he possessed the power, would have killed us. I replied to all to her quote and basically said as much, and ended by stating that if you want to stick to peace and love, perhaps she should find some individual who actually practiced it. She posted no more quotes after that day but I also got a reputation.