Beet
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« on: November 29, 2006, 03:41:37 AM » |
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This is no more of a newsworthy story than the microwave baby. Sadly, people would rather be entertained by essentially random and arbitrary anecdotes than hear about real things like economic statistics and crime statistics and education reports in the news. Next thing you know Keith Olbermann will be seizing on this incident as some kind of nationwide trend towards banning peace symbols, and he'll write a book called "the war on peace" that will appear on the ny times best seller list, and the pundits will chase their tails for about six months trying to figure it out while in the meantime, america falls further behind economically.
Personally, the woman should have taken the damn sign down. People have their kids risking their lives in Iraq, and Christmas shouldnt be corrupted into some kind of thing which makes people feel bad. If there's one refuge from politics we have these days (besides sports), its the holiday season. I feel sad that the arbitrary and capricious corporate globomedia in this country has intimidated this defenseless little community into retracting its fine.
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