![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I got the link to this article from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
revme. There are some great comments by Andy Partridge in it. I don't necessarily agree with all of the author's conclusions, but it's a good read. For what it's worth, I really know nothing about Coldplay. I've probably heard at least one of their songs at some point, but I can't remember. As unfair as this might be, I'm kind of turned off by their boring-sounding name. I feel the same way about Guster.
bethje and I watched the two most recent Bullshit! episodes last night. One was on hair, and the other on gun control. The former didn't really have any grand point to make, but it was funny. I especially liked the part where they looked at some of the hair care products offered by AsSeenOnTV.com, including a pubic hair shaver that came with stencils. They also looked at expensive haircuts, hair growth medicines with harmful side effects, transplants, and toupees--sorry, "hair replacement technology systems," or whatever the hell that lady called them.
Not too surprisingly, considering the whole Libertarian thing, Penn and Teller came out against gun control. I thought they made some decent points. I guess that's really an issue where it's pretty easy to find statistics and anecdotes to support both sides. I can say that I don't particularly like guns, but it really IS true that criminals are going to get them no matter how many laws are on the books. Maybe if there were some kind of magic spell that could make all the guns disappear, that would be a different story. {g} Actually, that reminds me of when I took African History in college, and, when the colonists were bringing in guns to use in subjugating a certain tribe (I forget which one), there was a belief that some kind of magic could turn the bullets into water. That would be a cool trick. But I digress.
There was a fair amount of examination of the Second Amendment, and what the Founding Fathers actually meant by it. Penn and Teller's conclusion was that the citizens should be allowed to be armed so that the government will be afraid to take away their liberties. They also argued that people saying it only applied to militias, or who think the wording is vague, had it wrong. While this is mostly true, I do think the word "arms" is a bit unclear. I mean, I know what the word means, but couldn't it be taken to the logical conclusion that people should be legally allowed to keep and bear nuclear weapons? Michael Moore made that basic argument in Bowling for Columbine. (Incidentally, Penn and Teller seem to really dislike Moore, despite the fact that they've done some similar things in the past. Am I wrong, or did Bullshit! and Fahrenheit 9/11 both have very similar segments on crappy safety products that people have tried to sell?) That aside, though, they made a reasonable point.
( Quiz results )
revme. There are some great comments by Andy Partridge in it. I don't necessarily agree with all of the author's conclusions, but it's a good read. For what it's worth, I really know nothing about Coldplay. I've probably heard at least one of their songs at some point, but I can't remember. As unfair as this might be, I'm kind of turned off by their boring-sounding name. I feel the same way about Guster.bethje and I watched the two most recent Bullshit! episodes last night. One was on hair, and the other on gun control. The former didn't really have any grand point to make, but it was funny. I especially liked the part where they looked at some of the hair care products offered by AsSeenOnTV.com, including a pubic hair shaver that came with stencils. They also looked at expensive haircuts, hair growth medicines with harmful side effects, transplants, and toupees--sorry, "hair replacement technology systems," or whatever the hell that lady called them.Not too surprisingly, considering the whole Libertarian thing, Penn and Teller came out against gun control. I thought they made some decent points. I guess that's really an issue where it's pretty easy to find statistics and anecdotes to support both sides. I can say that I don't particularly like guns, but it really IS true that criminals are going to get them no matter how many laws are on the books. Maybe if there were some kind of magic spell that could make all the guns disappear, that would be a different story. {g} Actually, that reminds me of when I took African History in college, and, when the colonists were bringing in guns to use in subjugating a certain tribe (I forget which one), there was a belief that some kind of magic could turn the bullets into water. That would be a cool trick. But I digress.
There was a fair amount of examination of the Second Amendment, and what the Founding Fathers actually meant by it. Penn and Teller's conclusion was that the citizens should be allowed to be armed so that the government will be afraid to take away their liberties. They also argued that people saying it only applied to militias, or who think the wording is vague, had it wrong. While this is mostly true, I do think the word "arms" is a bit unclear. I mean, I know what the word means, but couldn't it be taken to the logical conclusion that people should be legally allowed to keep and bear nuclear weapons? Michael Moore made that basic argument in Bowling for Columbine. (Incidentally, Penn and Teller seem to really dislike Moore, despite the fact that they've done some similar things in the past. Am I wrong, or did Bullshit! and Fahrenheit 9/11 both have very similar segments on crappy safety products that people have tried to sell?) That aside, though, they made a reasonable point.
( Quiz results )
