Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Coincidence?

I report, you decide. But I thought it was fun to run across this article just a half hour or so after posting my comments about The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid below.

Terrorism: We wildly overestimate the risk of being a victim, says author: "Common sense isn't so common any more.

It has been suffocated by irrational fear, which in turn has been enthusiastically stoked white-hot by the profiteering fear industry, which has been aided and abetted by opportunistic politicians, gullible, lazy media and other leaders of public opinion who should know better."

1 comment:

Doc Quatermass said...

"Common sense isn't so common any more."

Gee, there's an observation.

http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Fear-Americans-Afraid-Things/dp/B0014EW25W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213728415&sr=1-1