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To: Clappy who wrote (54087)	9/14/2006 2:40:57 AM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104167

clapper- you ask good dumb questions. actually, the story you linked to seemed fairly objective in its reporting. my comment about manufactured consent was probably driven more by the huge number of those stories we are bombarded with every day by the media. there are only 24 hours in a day and there are enough of those stories to last you all 24. i read enough to keep me in balance and concerned and opposed to violence but not so many that it makes life too painful and ugly for me and those around me. man cannot live on horror stories alone. she also needs some beauty, love and humor everyday to fuel the spirit and keep on truckin'. now's here's some shocking news: theonion.com Jimmy Buffett Pays For Own Drink For First Time In 17 Years September 14, 2006 \| Issue 42•37 MIAMI BEACH, FL - Entertainment personality and novelty-song writer Jimmy Buffett sustained confusion Monday after being forced to hand over approximately $10 for an alcoholic beverage he ordered at Miami Beach's Beachcombover's Dugout Bar And Grill, an incident that had not occurred since the late 1980s. "I'm still not sure how it happened - I ordered a Long Island Iced Tea, drank it, and got up to leave as usual, but then the bartender stopped me, and I didn't know what he wanted me to do," said Buffett, 60, who composed a bitter yet theoretically humorous ballad about the incident later that day. "When he requested money for the drink, I thought, well, that's reasonable. But then no one would give him any." Bar staff said that perhaps the timing of the incident contributed to Buffett's predicament, since during the day potential drink- buyers typically spend their weekday afternoons managing shoe stores, adjusting claims, or entering data.