Just say "yes" to coffee

Wholesale hypocrisy: This caffeine-addicted society advising kids not to absorb drugs.

More stupid media-speak

Unfortunately exposed again to a television news broadcast and heard the guy say "Our facebook page is blowing up." Would that that were really true. Whatever that would be.

Stupid media word of the month

Activist: one who is very skilled in being active; adherent to activism; in modern media-speak: nameless, soulless, unloved, indistinct entity protesting inanities perpetrated by any government (example – two dozen activists were shot in Egypt today...); cultural activist: enzyme enlisted in the perpetration of yoghurt.

Driving on the phone

Americans have agreed that hundreds of thousands will be slaughtered on behalf of the automobile industry and we're all pretty used to that. And since driving is fun, we accept the risk. But the auto has a new accomplice in mayhem, the cell phone, use of which killed 12,000 teenagers last year and maimed many more than that, not to mention the people incidentally run over while the teens were killing themselves. The communications industry has such power that cell phone use, more deadly than drunk driving, is legal in many states. In Tenneessee, where it is illegal, the fine is fifty dollars.

It is outrageous that this is allowed to continue. Since the government lacks the moral terpitude to address the situation, Americans should show that we don't. You want to protest something meaningful and easy? Instead of protesting Wall Street while texting your friends, protest the existence of cell phones. Put or throw them away until cell phones are incapable of working in a moving vehicle. Boycotting is easy, especially when boycotting something totally unnecessary. Just do it, America. Take a real stand for a change.

Rewriting history under our noses

In a recent accidental exposure to a television news broadcast, I heard that the Iraq so-called War "started during the George W. Bush presidency." Quite a difference between that and "was started by George Bush." They're doing it already.