I wish I could agree with that, but there are plenty of people in my age demographic (25-35) who get all of their talking-points from Fox News. I'm not sure why we eased up on the laws allowing Rupert Murdoch to own media in the U.S., but we pay for it every day in the form of continuing ignorance and whack-job propaganda/conspiracy theories.

I'm not saying that "gravity" is actually a series of elves pulling us down so we don't float out of the atmosphere, but there is a non-zero chance of it. I don't treat those who believe in that particular notion as crackpots.

I don't know if you actually are Lewis Black, but his voice is what was going through my head when I read your post. Kudos.

And thus completes the circle of life...cue Elton John!

The statute does exist, it is never enforced but some legislative twit managed to get it passed. The fact is, it's just another tool that can be used to bludgeon you legally if you piss off the right people.

A few years ago I moved from Texas back to the West Coast. I had already paid sales tax on the goods that I had bought in Texas. I was told by a lawyer-y friend over some beers that technically I had to pay taxes on all of the stuff I brought in from out-of-state. We may be "tax dodgers" but the tax code is hardly fair.

I believe the point was whether or not the living room has changed fundamentally because of the iPad/AppleTV combination. You may love it, and it may be the best thing ever, but the fact is the living room is much the same as before. I know a staggering number of people with iDevices, you could make the claim that Apple did revolutionize that particular space, but even with the huge geeky crowd that I roll with, nobody has an AppleTV system. Although, many of us do have XBMC setups.

And precisely what place does the TSA have? Would their theoretical presence have stopped 9/11 - no. Have they managed to stop any of the would-be terrorists from getting on planes - no. They are security theater at best, and a bunch of thugs at worst. You claim to work for rational thought, but resort to ad hominem attacks at the first possible moment. People like you, who want to pussy-foot around and hide behind the law are as much of a problem as people like me. I may be proactive, but I do get results. I'm not going to dignify the rest of your grammatically nightmarish prattle with any more of a response.

Wrong... If the only job you can get involves you screaming at the top of your lungs through my neighborhood that you're a pretty princess, that doesn't change the fact that you are an annoyance and need to stop. The feeble-minded twits that joined with the TSA need to know by any means necessary that they are perceived as bullies and their organization is an affront to everything that America ostensibly stands for.

When your job is to annoy me, you've crossed a line. I don't care what sob story you have, I make it a point to chew out every vendor cold-call and telemarketer that has the misfortune of dialing my number.