tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post2949506074625973029..comments2023-10-24T08:13:45.842-06:00Comments on Only in New Mexico: More MiscJim Bacahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14019944863771287149noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post-36783736287877262512012-11-27T18:21:08.602-07:002012-11-27T18:21:08.602-07:00That's an interesting comparison, shopping and...That's an interesting comparison, shopping and war.<br /><br />The mob aspect. What they have in common is the media's role, but there would be something on the receiving end, in human nature, that would be in common, also. What is it about us? Why would those two things come to the surface?<br /><br /><br /><br />As for the Journal, for some reason I have had online access to the whole paper lately. I read an editorial the other day that started off "Big government, i.e. the Environmental Protection Agency..."<br /><br /><br />That's the editorial page? That's the part of the paper they want you to take seriously?<br /><br />That's a childish little sideswipe at the idea that government works for the collective good and is something of value. That's a Republican hot button sound bite designed to bypass the thinking process and appeal to the emotions, which in the case of the editorial writer it did.<br /><br />That's one thing, but a real newspaper would never have language like that in an editorial.<br /><br /><br />http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/11/23/opinion/epa-denial-of-ethanol-waiver-is-bad-policy.html?utm_source=upprevAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com