American Ignorance (Newsweek)

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Philosophy Explorer wrote:
bobevenson wrote:You're a wet-behind-the-ears dweeb who should be restricted to "The Lounge."
I printed out your Ouzo Prophecy and lined the litterbox with it.
No, you were supposed to shove it up your ass!
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bobevenson wrote:
Philosophy Explorer wrote:
bobevenson wrote:You're a wet-behind-the-ears dweeb who should be restricted to "The Lounge."
I printed out your Ouzo Prophecy and lined the litterbox with it.
No, you were supposed to shove it up your ass!
Oooh that tickles Bob (and it makes great toilet paper).

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Philosophy Explorer wrote:Oooh that tickles Bob.
That's from the kitty litter, asshole!
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Re: American Ignorance (Newsweek)

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Somebody posted this on another forum and received quite a lot of personal hostility. You're lucky to get it only from your same old adversary. Page three before anyone discussed the actual article. Needless to say, that got a lot of hostility as well. Of course, it's a magazine headline: intended to attract attention.

Obviously, civics ought to be emphasized a lot more in public schools. Obviously, the system of government is more complicated than it needs to be and the public information media are piss-poor.
Personally, being of an age where, if I'm introduced to someone new, another name drops out of my head, and I can only hope it's that of a dead actor, not my dentist, I can't blame people for failing to memorize the names of officials who are mentioned only rarely on the news, and who change every few years - though they ought to know the speaker and the VP, especially if they have served for a term or more.
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If you're talking about that stupid link to Newsweek's so-called citizenship test, there was no article to read since that idiot used up his free articles. All you could see was that 38% of somebody didn't know something. Who gives a shit? Newsweek needs to come up with stories since it covered the news so poorly it had to stop publishing its magazine due to poor circulation.
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bobevenson wrote:
Philosophy Explorer wrote:Oooh that tickles Bob.
That's from the kitty litter, asshole!
Takes one to know one, huh Booby?

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Re: American Ignorance (Newsweek)

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Well, okay then.
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