States may have grown accustomed to violating the rights of American citizens, but that does not bootstrap those violations into something that is constitutional.

Monday, September 19, 2005

media avoidance

Andrea Harris gives some reasons not to watch tv or movies - here's the introduction:
Even those films that purport to be full of ironic, postmodern “questioning of our assumptions” have a base of smug surety in the rightness of the filmmakers’ viewpoints, and leave unexamined several current notions that are as sacred today as the dreaded triumvirate of mother-country-God supposedly was in the past.

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