April 2008 | On Our Radar
Worth Repeating
“I really didn’t like TV-Turnoff week, except I did notice that my grades went up and I was in a good mood all week.”
—Second grader Drew Henderson on the annual program (4/25 to 5/1 this year) designed to counteract the more than 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence an average American child witnesses on TV by age 18. (tvturnoff.org)
“If we fight evil with inhumanity, what does that make us?”
—Mort Rosenblum on waterboarding, in which suspects’ faces are held underwater until their lungs nearly burst. The Bush administration has refused to classify waterboarding as torture.
(huffingtonpost.com, 2/15)
“When we stop working with our hands, we cease to understand how the world really works.”
—Clive Thompson on the importance of basic mechanics in solving our country’s nastiest problems, like oil dependence and climate change. (Wired, 2/25)
“The federal government works deliberately and forcefully to prevent the local food movement from expanding.”
—Minnesota farmer Jack Hedin on federal laws that make it financially disastrous for growers of federally subsidized commodity crops to help meet the demand for organic fruits and vegetables. (NY Times, 3/1)
“That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that.”
—President George W. Bush, upon hearing that numerous analysts are predicting $4-a-gallon gasoline. (White House news conference, 2/28)
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