Survival Among Savages

Why is the media so mindless, devoid of ideas, devoid of anything

that might get you to think? Because the ones that communicate

to the lowest common denominator are always the most successful,

they rake it in, right? So, the competition sees how successful they are

and decides to communicate on an even lower level, get a bigger share

of the market. They succeed. So, the other network goes even lower, and

they succeed, and so on and on, until here we are today, nearing the end

of the 21st Century and the media really, really stinks.

~Ruby: Adventures of a Galactic Gumshoe

I read the news today, oh boy.

So Michael Savage is quoted as saying on his radio show,"I would say let them fast till they starve to death ... because then we won't have a problem about giving them green cards because they're illegal aliens."

And it just makes me sick, my stomach twists up in knots. And I think, surely, surely there must be some sane voices out there to counter this. People aren't really going to be taken in by this kind of hatefulness. And then I scroll down to the comments and *more* people are writing things like, "Way to go, Mike!" and "That's what free speech is all about, and if you don't like it, just leave!"

Really? This is what free speech is all about? Is it truly free speech if you are using it to disenfranchise an entire segment of the population? Color me naive, but what ever happened to intelligent discourse? What ever happened to using our power of speech to resolve issues instead of to make inflammatory comments designed to shock and entertain?

4 Days til Lift-Off