Fact: just because it was on CSI last week doesn't make it actually relevant to law enforcement or criminal procedure.
Fact: just because the entire cast of Beverly Hills 90210 was skinny does not mean everybody in California is skinny.
Fact: just because you saw on television a somewhat older gentleman informing you that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction does not mean that Iraq actually has weapons of mass destruction.
I am hating television, because it has trained all of us to look at anything in the box and think it MUST be true. It's a sad sort of laziness on the part of the average human being on the street- and in fairness, one I succumb to occasionally as well.
Fact: just because the entire cast of Beverly Hills 90210 was skinny does not mean everybody in California is skinny.
Fact: just because you saw on television a somewhat older gentleman informing you that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction does not mean that Iraq actually has weapons of mass destruction.
I am hating television, because it has trained all of us to look at anything in the box and think it MUST be true. It's a sad sort of laziness on the part of the average human being on the street- and in fairness, one I succumb to occasionally as well.
Which is a pathology that has been around for a very long time.
-R
I get most of my political information by weighing the websites and stuff that my dad and Terry send me (one is slightly left-wing, the other a total anarchist-guess which) and the Fresno Bee (the local and very conservative newspaper) with the BBC. I figure all of our major news stations are owned by Republicans, so I trust a foreign news source better than our own.
-K
So, with this in mind, everyone in CA *IS* Skinny.
...ahhh. thank you. I needed that, today.
(Or two days ago, as it were.)
they're everywhere.
They don't even know they're stupid.
The people I work with are, generally, of average-to-decent intelligence. Which makes their moments of duh REALLY stand out.
CSI hurts my brain. It does so much damage to our public image, as Police Officers. People want our Crime Scene Unit to come to every crime scene, no matter how small (we have a standing policy, for instance, the Crime Scene never responds to an Entering Auto call). They want to see them dust for prints, even on surfaces where it would be impossible. They think we should be out there with rulers and calipers and crime scene tape and any number of gadgets and gizmos working round the clock to solve every petty burglary (of which there are about fifteen in the county, every day).