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July 20, 2009
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter
The problem with universal suffrage was obvious to thinkers from classical antiquity to the more recent past. Somehow their conclusion has escaped us.
"It's been 37 years since the last Apollo moon mission, and tens of millions of younger Americans have no memories of watching the moon landings live. A 2005-2006 poll by Mary Lynne Dittmar, a space consultant based in Houston, Texas, found that more than a quarter of Americans 18 to 25 expressed some doubt that humans set foot on the moon. "As the number of people who were not yet born at the time of the Apollo program increases, the number of questions [about the moon landings] also may increase," NASA said in a statement. "Conspiracy theories are always difficult to refute because of the impossibility of proving a negative."
In directly related news: 68 percent of 18- to 24-year olds voted for Barack Obama.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at July 20, 2009 07:28 AM
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