Television news is akin to audible wallpaper.

Television news is akin to audible wallpaper.

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Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

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if we could tax Americans' cognitive dissonance we could balance the budget. The American people want all kinds of incompatible things, they're human beings, and they want high services, low taxes, and an omnipresent, omniprominent welfare state.

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Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.

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Our hatred of government is not caused mainly by government's goals, whatever their wisdom, but by government's techniques." Philip Howard

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