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"if you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you get selfish ignorant politicians. Politicians don't fall from the sky, they're just one of us" ~ Genius.

Nothing good as a result of celebrating selfishness and greed over everything else. Losing our conservative values.

The only people who read physical magazines in the U.S. are people who buy their magazines in the supermarket checkout aisle.

These covers are designed to target them. They're right next to magazines telling you about how Brad and Angelina got into an argument.

Kevin says

...telling you about how Brad and Angelina got into an argument.

They did? OMIGAWD! Tell me MORE!!!!

My favorite about the supermarket rags is that one can get all his news from there without opening a page. However, I've never seen Time Magazine there - but I don't look.

yeah, fascinating:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine

Kevin says

These covers are designed to target them. They're right next to magazines telling you about how Brad and Angelina got into an argument.

and I'm glad we hold our news magazines to such high standards.

And always remember: "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some . . . people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over HERE in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children."

Just another symptom of the collapse of America. Other empires have fallen that endured hundreds, even thousands of years. Egypt, Greece, Rome, they all prospered for and faded into the pages of history. We are too self centered now, we see our parents driving BMW's and having nice houses. So what do we do right out of college? We buy BMW's and big houses. We forget that our parents worked hard, lived well below there means, invested and saved for years before they got the good life. We want it NOW, without putting in the work to get it. And how do we get it? We finance it, our prosperity is built on a ocean of debt. Were living on frozen lake, with a sea of debt under the ice... and the ice is getting thinner every year.

America will not cease to exist, but we will fall from a super power to a 2nd rate country. China will lead the world as a superpower. America will be a footnote in the Chinese history books. As the world catered to America, with English as the international language of money, finance, air travel, all worlds currencies pegged against the dollar, all these will change to Chinese in time.

FortWayne says

Nothing good as a result of celebrating selfishness and greed over everything else. Losing our conservative values.

Give me a break. I'm a center-left pro-business guy, but neither side has a monopoly on values. You've just illustrated one of the problems we have here.

Our biggest issue is an uneducated populace. People used to be able to understand issues in depth, and take the good from progressive and conservative thought. Now, it's just issues like "Why Mom Liked You Best".

Er, my point was specifically about *printed* news. There's plenty of real, quality news, but educated people get it online. For some reason Europeans and Asians still like dead trees.

kentm says

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some . . . people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over HERE in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children."

I'm sure she went on to become a geologist:

Hollywood Bimbo Tara Reid: I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist."

FYI, Kevin, I went to the supermarket yesterday to buy various sundries - and checked out the magazines. There was no Time or Newsweek in sight. However, I did learn that Jessica Simpson's pregnancy is filled with complications, Kim Kardashian was verbally abused by the guy she exploited, Jen still wants a baby and someone named Brittany couldn't get a talk show on the air.

So I'm fully informed now - and I didn't crack open a magazine cover at all.

TechGromit says

America will not cease to exist, but we will fall from a super power to a 2nd rate country. China will lead the world as a superpower. America will be a footnote in the Chinese history books. As the world catered to America, with English as the international language of money, finance, air travel, all worlds currencies pegged against the dollar, all these will change to Chinese in time.

Men of stature and merit will never babble the ching-chong of the yellow Orientals. And their hunger for milk of the poppies precludes any ability to raise themselves above their current lot. Yes, the Chinamen seems cultured when compared with his brutal cannibalistic neighbors, but like all things from the Orient, they are merely curiosities.

I do fancy the Black Rhino Horn tea when I am in Hong Kong. It adds sizable girth to my manhood when I'm enjoying china dolls of the night.

Kevin says

The only people who read physical magazines in the U.S. are people who buy their magazines in the supermarket checkout aisle.

These covers are designed to target them.

Kind of reinforces the point. Unfortunately, that is the majority of people in this country. Heaven forbid we inform rather than entertain people in their moments of idleness.

Kevin says

The only people who read physical magazines in the U.S. are people who buy their magazines in the supermarket checkout aisle.

Or those who subscribe to them...

Yeah, Time Magazine is mostly shit, sure, but there are plenty of high quality print magazines out there. They just aren't as popular with the masses as some of the low brow ones. Many of them include access to the digital version when you buy the paper version too.

Kevin says

Er, my point was specifically about *printed* news. There's plenty of real, quality news, but educated people get it online.

Lots of people read CNN.com too, but that's fairly low quality news. There are plenty of low quality sites to read online, and plenty of educated and non-educated alike read them. I'm not sure what format has anything to do with this.

The reality is that educated people tend to read better stuff in whatever the format. Time Magazine is generally shite whether it's online or print, even if they have a decent article every few weeks.

Quality printed news sources are a dying breed. All of the majors of the past are rapidly digitizing. There are some people who really love dead trees, but they're a quickly shrinking population.

Yes, there's plenty of garbage online, too. My point is simply that educated people tend to get their news online in America, whereas they still read print in Europe and Asia. That's all.