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...Truckers' News (circ. 250,000), last week accused First Mama of rustling votes over the Citizen's Band airwaves-a violation, says he, of federal regulations. Fearful that campaigners might clog the air, Stevens has called on the FCC to prevent politicians from rendering "our CB radios useless in election years." Ten-four, First Mama...
...behavior whose craziness is considerably less apparent. Among these are suicide, crime, perception of God and the Devil, alcoholism, and hysterical love. They are aberrant in respect to the social norms, but does that make them traits of madness? Are they even philosophically foolish? Again, these questions are useless, because there is no definition of madness. The way one regards mental illness is a result of the way one views life, and Friedrich seems unable to conceive of an existence where happiness is not an end nor self-preservation a rule of logic, where "those crazy people...
Wolbach is disenchanted. He has given up trying to get astronomers interested in the world outside. "I can't seem to describe to them what the public would like," he says. "So I have found it useless...
...College for a few and trades for the many" should be our motto. We have too many useless college graduates to feed now. A smart fellow with a good trade is never pictured holding rejection slips and mooching food stamps and unemployment checks from his uneducated fellow taxpayers...
...changes in the Hose's homecoming--some new names on the roster, an American League pennant blowing crazily in center field, meter marks indicating the distance down the lines, and $1.2 million scoreboard that led the crowd in a National Anthem sing-along, and flashed instant replays and useless batting line-ups throughout the game...