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He would be minus 50 if more people had their heads screwed on right.

Yep. Sadly, I saw at Christmas once again how ill informed people are. I had to inform one family member at Christmas about the quadruple cop killing in Seattle, among other things (like Obama not going to church). This is an otherwise smart person, but too absorbed with unimportant crap to pay attention to what goes on in the world around her. Ask about the prime time crime shows, though, and get all you could not want to know and more.

9 posted on 12/26/2009 10:36:43 AM PST by LostInBayport (When the riders in the cart outnumber those pulling the cart, the cart stops moving. My back hurts.)

Bread and circuses to distract the populace.

And TV and Internet have become the current opium of the masses.

Some examples of our midern day Bread&Circus. Many fall into one group or another:

Beer and the NFL
Prime time TV and Haagen-Daz
Internet porn and pot