Friday, January 06, 2006
missing howard, the smoking seatbelt
Now that howard stern is off the regular airwaves, I am seriously (no pun intended) scrambling for something to listen to on my morning commute. I have listened to him for 17 years and he has set the bar pretty high, so high in fact that one week after he has been gone I have determined that all morning radio shows completely suck ass.
Anyway, while listening to a suck ass talk show this morning, I came across an interesting debate. To cut to the chase, here is the question. People were complaining about the fact that police in NJ / NY can now pull you over if you are not wearing a seatbelt. It used to be a secondary ticket (meaning they could ticket you if they pulled you over for something else) and it is now a primary ticket. People were arguing that if you are an adult and choose not to wear a seatbelt, than that is your choice.
My first instinct is that people are too dumb to realize that seatbelts save lives…no one can debate that. But then I thought, if we force people to wear them, under penalty of a cash fine, why shouldn’t we then force people to stop smoking? I mean cigarettes kill you, no debate there, and second hand smoke even hurts those who don’t smoke. There is a definite parallel here. So my question to you is, if we make people wear seatbelts for their protection, should we make tobacco illegal as well?
Anyway, while listening to a suck ass talk show this morning, I came across an interesting debate. To cut to the chase, here is the question. People were complaining about the fact that police in NJ / NY can now pull you over if you are not wearing a seatbelt. It used to be a secondary ticket (meaning they could ticket you if they pulled you over for something else) and it is now a primary ticket. People were arguing that if you are an adult and choose not to wear a seatbelt, than that is your choice.
My first instinct is that people are too dumb to realize that seatbelts save lives…no one can debate that. But then I thought, if we force people to wear them, under penalty of a cash fine, why shouldn’t we then force people to stop smoking? I mean cigarettes kill you, no debate there, and second hand smoke even hurts those who don’t smoke. There is a definite parallel here. So my question to you is, if we make people wear seatbelts for their protection, should we make tobacco illegal as well?
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
evolution, intelligent design, etc.
intelligent design seems to have fallen out of the headlines when that pennsylvania judge basically said it was a crock, a thinly guised version of religion.
i have a question. the earth is 4.5 billion years old, and algae and plankton were really the only forms of life for like 99 percent of that time. the dinosaurs were hundreds of millions of years old. and jesus is said to be arouond 2000 years old. how can evolution not be the right theory here? what do you think?
i have a question. the earth is 4.5 billion years old, and algae and plankton were really the only forms of life for like 99 percent of that time. the dinosaurs were hundreds of millions of years old. and jesus is said to be arouond 2000 years old. how can evolution not be the right theory here? what do you think?
