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To: Grainne who wrote (14567)	1/1/1998 12:59:00 PM
From: MSB	Respond to of 108807

I agree with most of your comments about TV especially the part about being in a stupor. Don't even try to talk to me when I'm engrossed in something on television. Not only would I not hear you, but if you got up and left the room, I wouldn't even know it. The gist of what I was trying to say was that even without TV parents wouldn't nessasarily(edit for spelling) guide their children toward art related subjects. Both of my parents are college educated, and we didn't have a TV when I was quite young. Neither of them, as I remember, encouraged art related subjects during this period of my life. Even during my grade school years during the summer months we and my playmates rarely watched TV. Of course their weren't VCR's and our community didn't have cable like the bigger cities. There was no way any parent was going to confine their children to soap operas which was all the fare their was to watch. We played games, went exploring, took hikes down the railroad tracks, built forts at the river . . . so many of the things many children did during that age. Have things really changed so much? Essentially I'm saying, only if the parents themselves are interested in the arts, which I see as more of an upper class interest, do the children stand a chance of being encouraged in that direction. But you'll have a pretty difficult time of convincing me that if children were more interested in the arts our society would be better somehow in the long run. I loved to play doctor as a child. It didn't make me want to go to medical school. <ggg> Back to stupor: Have you seen a film named "American Pop"? Its animated. Looks like a fun movie to . . . and watch. (Secret Message Alert) :-) Later

To: Grainne who wrote (14567)	1/2/1998 9:07:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, I am a very happy woman so far this year. Nike, a company I have boycotted for years, is finally losing ground, and its products are deeply marked down and still going unsold at the discount stores where I did my holiday shopping. And a lot of people, some of whom have enough power to try to do something about it, are beginning to think that Bill Gates should not monopolize technology and control information on the Internet. There is even a fun site which pokes fun at him--the Society for the Prevention of Gates Getting Everything. You can buy a t-shirt or a mug there! Here's the url: galaxymall.com And here is what I think is a very good column voicing the same concerns I have against Gates, in case anyone else is interested: sfgate.com I'm sure all the unbridled capitalists in this crowd still think Bill Gates is better than sliced bread, but I think he's TOAST, and I hope I'm right! The more pugnacious he and his legal become in defense of Microsoft, the more negatives he gets from the public. Anyway, with these two companies, it's pleasing to me to see kharma finally playing out!!