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Speculation? Perhaps, but in a harmless fashion, unlike the dangerous speculation that the psychiatric professional makes everytime he diagnoses a child with ADD and prescribes Ritalin or other similar medicines whose effects have not been conclusively determined...
...site). But was Timothy McVeigh in fact Robert Kling? Jones has argued that the testimony of Elliott and Kessinger is unreliable, since they have been so inconsistent on the question of John Doe No. 2. The government insists that conflating Bunting's visit with McVeigh's was a harmless, understandable mistake and that the identification of McVeigh remains airtight...
...push of competition and academic rigor. A stuffed animal on a college bed is the sign that more matters than classes, term papers and internships, but it doesn't send a clear picture of what exactly is more important. The Elmo craze has shown that even cuteness and harmless things can bring out the viciousness of the holiday season; Elmo is an adorable but malleable symbol...
Cuteness is harmless, but its powers are so easily manipulated. I fear that Elmo heroism could hide the real priorities we should envision as we approach the 21st century--the concerns and values that tire us out, that cause us to sleep uncomfortably in our beds. It seems the hard issues of the early 90s have made the national consciousness tired: AIDS, the environment, global nuclear disarmament. We can't be Elmo and approach these issues ready to learn for a bit and then rely on others to shape our ideas; we need not to see a complex world...
Whether all their activities are ethical or even legal is highly questionable. To be sure, most scanners are harmless hobbyists hooked on the drama of raw, radio-transmitted reality; some anonymous guy who happens to like listening to plumbers and electricians, for instance, surely poses little threat to the community...