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In Soviet New York, iPod bans you!
So a state senator in New York wants to ban using iPods while crossing city streets.

USA Today blogs about it. The comments section is a cesspool of wank, mostly of the righteous indignation kind. Watch how liberals are blamed for all society's ills! Marvel at how Darwin is misused over and over again! Gasp as accusations of communism are thrown around carelessly!

The stupid, it had to be shared.

ETA: BE MORE FUNNY, PEOPLE.

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(Anonymous)
2007-02-08 07:51 am UTC (link)

All of the wanking about Democrats v. Republicans is neither here nor there. The senator in question has also run on Republican and Conservative Party lines and has campaigned for other Republican candidates.
http://blogs.timesunion.com/capitol/?p=3110

I just called the Senator's Brooklyn office and was told that he is in Albany and could not speak to me.

Maybe that is because he is working, at his job in the New York State Senate, which is located in Albany?
The stupid, it is melting my brain. Make it stop.

prairiedawn

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	rachelmap 2007-02-08 10:45 am UTC (link)
	How can you live in New York and not know where the capital is? And, if you don't live in New York, why do you care about this issue? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

(Anonymous)
2007-02-08 06:11 pm UTC (link)

You would be surprised at the number of city dwellers who have no idea where the capital is. We're like Canada to them. And if people want to complain about this bill, which probably won't even get passed, they should call their own state senator, not the one who introduced the bill. And then they should watch Schoolhouse Rock.

(sorry Luthe, I'm trying to find the funny but there are just so many levels of stupid in this.)

prairiedawn

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	puipui 2007-02-08 08:29 pm UTC (link)
	And then they should watch Schoolhouse Rock. My daughter and I often sing the preamble together. This is apropos of nothing, I just wanted to share. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2007-02-09 06:35 pm UTC (link)
	Kids' television shows were so much better in the 70s and 80s. pd (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2007-02-09 06:22 pm UTC (link)
	also, I think a lot of those commenters are confusing NY State senator with U.S. senator. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rachel_pi 2007-02-10 09:00 pm UTC (link)
	I think a lot of people don't realize that most state legislators actually do spend a lot of time in the state capital. I worked for a guy in PA and we constantly had people demanding to speak to him while he was in Harrisburg. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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