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Actually, I believe it does just the opposite. When you are about to make a stupid purchase, it praises you on your decision, by use of a popup, and suggests you add a few more of the same item to your shopping cart.

Sort of like this...

Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Monopolies offer Choice

*Blatently stolen from a Tom Tomorrow cartoon that I can't seem to find right now.*

You mean this one, I believe.
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So you are replying to an author's response to a reader's review of that author's analysis of a filmmaker and colabrative author's creative statement about the human condition?

Of course now I am replying to ....

In the immortal words of Sparky the Wonder Penguin, "If this gets any more post-modern, my brain is going to explode."
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People should really read about the protesters and what they stand for. Most (I would go as far as to say all, but there are always a few exceptions) of these people are very concerned citizens who are worried about the current state of our democracy. Common Dreams seems to have some pretty good coverage of the civil rights trampling that was done.

There are a number of instances where organizers were singled out and arrested in a preemptive manner. This is probably why the staff member from 2600 was arrested. You see, the organizers all carry the Nextel phones, because they are cheap and can conference call. Read a number of instances where people were arrested, not read any rights, detained for longer than legal times, not told what they were being charged with, (and here is the shocker) because they happened to be walking by with a Nextel phone.

Do the protesters have valid concerns? Yes, I think so. In Philidelphia, it appears you can walk on civil rights, and get away with it with out so much as a mention from the mainstream media. My favorite site has been Tom Tommorrow's photo shoot of the Republican convention (Tom Tommorrow draws This Modern World.) The highlight in my mind is the part where you have a picture of Sam Donaldson sitting bored complaining about the lack of news, while protesters flooded the streets outside.

Over the past 10 years the Democrats have moved vastly to the right, and the Republicans have moved to the left. What we have right now are two parties that quibble over minor details while agreeing on the big ones. It truely has become a monoparty system. The term "Republicrat" is popping up more and more.

Bill Mahr put it best on his show, Politically Incorrect, "We already have compassionate conservatives. They're called Democrats." This is very true. There really is no voice for the progressive these days--or so the media would have us believe. The fact is, that Ralph Nader is a liberal progressive--and a damn smart person. He is the reason we have some semblance of auto safety standards. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton in 1955, and from Harvard Law School in 1958. Since then he has tirelessly devoted his life to public service. The guy makes over $300,000/yr and lives off of $25,000--because he gives the rest to civic projects.

More importantly, the guy is way ahead of all the other third party candidates, is on the ballot in 30 states already (including Montana :-) Thank you Mr. Wachs and co.) with more to come, and he has eight percent popularity. If enough people vote for him, the Green Party (I was a staunch Democrat before I found the Greens) will become a "recognized" political party.

But, the media has chosen to ignore him.

So rather than throw my vote away by voting for one of the major parties, I'm going to do something this year. I'm going to do my part to get the Green Party recognized so that the Democrats can never again say,"You have to vote for us, we're not Newt Gingrich's party."

-Peter

Voting for the "least worst choice" is still going downhill. Make your vote actually count. Vote Nader

This reminds me of the original This Modern World. Unfortunately, Tom Tomorrow hasn't put his old zines up on the web yet, just his current comics, but it has been reprinted (in "The Wrath of Sparky" IIRC).

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