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Free Advice about Life, Universe and Other Stuff from Lawrence R. Spencer

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THE STATE OF AMERICAN TELEVISION

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What ever happened to TV shows like “The Andy Griffith Show”?  “I Love Lucy”, where are you?  Where have good taste and common decency gone?  There are 900 cable TV channels and yet there are only a handful of shows being broadcast that my parents would have let me watch when I was growing up in the 1950’s and 60’s.  There are only a  tiny number of Cable Networks that show programs suitable for children or adults.  Nearly all of these are supported by public donations:  PBS, LINK TV, OVATION and a few others. Since the advent of television broadcasting in the mid-1950s, New York and Hollywood program producers and TV Network executives have sold our good taste, moral codes, cultural values, literacy levels and common sense to the lowest bidder:  The American Public.

If you’re sick and tired of watching BULLSHIT on TV, just do two simple things:  1) Turn it off 2) Stop paying for it.  3) Stop buying products advertised on it.

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DROP THE BARREL

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I hope you’ll enjoy my posts.  I stay up late at night figuring our things to write, pictures to post and searching for things on the internet that I think are bizarre, or interesting, or enlightening or educational.

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GUN TOTUM

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“Standing in front of Providence’s Federal Courthouse in Rhode Island is an unusual monument constructed out of steel, concrete and 1000 used handguns. Dubbed the Gun Totem by its artist, Boris Bally, the imposing obelisk was constructed in 2001 with guns from a firearm buy-back program called Guns for Goods, founded by Dr. Michael P. Hirsch.

Hirsch and former colleague Matthew Masiello founded Guns for Goods in Pittsburgh in 1994, while working in trauma centers at area hospitals during a time of high crime. Researching gun-buy-back programs in locations such as New York, Hirsch and Masiello decided to try their own version of the program in Pittsburgh – but instead of buying back guns for cash reimbursements, they offered gift cards from local merchants in trade for the forgotten or unwanted weapons. To date, Guns for Goods has collected more 11,000 weapons off the streets of Pittsburgh.”

via Amusing Planet