[Flavius Josephus]

Unfortunately, most people in the country are lazy and willing to believe what they are told than make any effort to find things out for themselves.

I don't know.. I think our people, with our incredible, stubborn, bloody-minded streak of Individualism, are better at knowing they're being fed a sh!t sandwich than we give them credit for. That's why the dino-media is sinking - it's not because a few conservatives stopped watching.

Remember, we consume a great deal more of what the has-been media is serving up than Joe Six-pack, because we use it for discussion fodder. Joe Six-pack doesn't really care.

[chimera]

I'd like to believe what you say is the case, but I have my doubts. I am often more surprised by what people I talk to don't know than what they do know. Just the other week I was talking with some supposedly-educated people at my church and they were making comments like, well, they didn't think it was so important what a presidential candidate thought about abortion, since that was an issue that was decided by the Supreme Court. I then asked one of them what the process was whereby justices serving on the Supreme Court are selected. One of them said, "well, they are nominated by the President, and then the Senate...", and suddenly there was this pause, and a deer-in-the-headlights look, then a little mumbling and spluttering, and finally a reluctant, "well, I see your point...". Like I said, I am often amazed at how little people really know, or think things through.