[Congressman Billybob]

I didn't search for it, and I am distressed to know, that there was an ANS thread with 15,000 posts. How sad.

John / Billybob

[don-o]

Are you familiar with "Amusing Ourselves to Death" ny Neil Postman? Wikipedia has a pretty good article on this great book.

link.

[barkeep]

My favorite references to the ANS story: one from a fellow on NPR whose name I did not catch, "A friend asked if I had been following the (ANC)story and I replied, "No, but it's been following me."; the other, someone commenting, tongue in cheek, I think, "We will never understand the Iraqis, their culture is so foreign to ours, if you will believe it, not a single native Iraqi has stepped up and claimed paternity of Anna Nichole Smith's baby.".