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2015-09-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Grunter 2015-09-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Anyone who's spent time in Asia and the Mid-East wouldn't be surprised.

Posted by Pappy 2015-09-05 11:59|| 2015-09-05 11:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Cheapness of life, lack of respect for individual. This is the payoff of that sort of collectivist, top-heavy government culture.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-09-05 14:07|| 2015-09-05 14:07|| Front Page Top

#3 It's cultural, OS, but it spans a hell of a lot of governmental styles.

Posted by Pappy 2015-09-05 15:05|| 2015-09-05 15:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like a perverse economic incentive to me. Mostly-dead pedestrians cost you more than all-dead ones.

Plus, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and the light just changed.

Posted by SteveS 2015-09-05 15:41|| 2015-09-05 15:41|| Front Page Top

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