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Old September 6th 05, 02:54 AM
George Patterson
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Dan Luke wrote:

What makes me want to weep is the number of my fellow citizens who fall
for this crap. People seem to yearn to have their prejudices stroked,
and select their information sources accordingly, so that they are not
confronted with anything that might-God forbid-cause them to have to
rethink their views of the world.


I like P.J. O'Roarke's take on this. He's conservative. He listens to things
like NPR. He says there's no reason for him to just listen to people who think
just like he does.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.