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...just this kind of thing (Oklahoma City, O.J.), with noisy experts on tap, interrupting one another from different quadrants of the screen. We round up the usual suspects--in the current case, our cretinous popular culture; the Internet, with its rancid cul-de-sacs; violent movies; idiot television; vicious rap; ubiquitous sex. One high school counselor cast a wide net on MSNBC: "It's all those things, ekcedra, ekcedra, ekcedra." The "ekcedra" includes adolescence itself, a form of temporary insanity that in America is rendered even crazier by all of the above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: Coming to Clarity About Guns | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

Further searching of the Internet reveals a newsgroup, alt.memetics, which has received about 12,000 postings during the past year. There are online articles titled, to name a couple, "Memes, Metamemes and Politics" and "Memes, and Grinning Idiot Press." There are separate websites on "Meme Theorists on the Web" and the "Meme Gardening Page." There is even a new religion (tongue in cheek, I hope) called the "Church of Virus," complete with its own list of Sins and Virtues and its own patron saint (St. Charles Darwin). I was alarmed to discover a passing reference to "St. Dawkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Selfish Meme | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...something more direct is to your taste, Seven Stars also carries the Ultimate Alien Agenda and The Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Or you could browse through one of the many books on Roswell, New Mexico, the site of a purported UFO crash...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Tarot to UFOs, Seven Stars Bookstore Features Occult Works | 4/14/1999 | See Source »

...something more direct is to your taste, Seven Stars also carries The Ultimate Alien Agenda and The Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Or you could browse through one of the many books on Roswell, New Mexico, the site of a purported UFO crash...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, | Title: The Reporter's Note book | 4/14/1999 | See Source »

...think Milosevic has spoken a word of truth in the last seven years, so one would have to be a complete idiot to believe anything Milosevic says without clear support from his actions," said Emir Kamenica '01, who is from Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina...

Author: By Alysson R. Ford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Balkan Natives React To Continuing Attacks | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

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