Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!mcnc!unc!oliver From: oliver@unc.UUCP (Bill Oliver) Newsgroups: net.misc.coke,net.politics,net.misc Subject: Re: Coke and the Real Thing Message-ID: <587@unc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 00:10:21 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.587 Posted: Sat Jul 13 00:10:21 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jul-85 08:25:17 EDT References:Reply-To: oliver@unc.UUCP (Bill Oliver) Distribution: net Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 47 Xref: watmath net.misc.coke:8 net.politics:9922 net.misc:8231 In article berman@ihlpg.UUCP (Andy Berman) writes: >>OK folks, now that ALL of you have assumed you were the ONLY insert Coke news here... >>WE ALREADY KNOW! >> >>So shut up already. >---------------------------------------------- >This week 7 Black South Africans were killed by the Apartheid regime. >The media took scant notice. The most massive air bombardment in the blah, blah, blah... >And, alas, we are taken in, and pretend to care about such nonsense. > >As in Roman times, >give them circuses to distract them. > >I mourn for my country. > ihnp4!ihlpg!berman God forbid that anyone enjoy life around here when such opportuniuties for self righteous moral indignation abound. I dissect murder victims for a living for Chrissake. I can use a circus now and then. There is no sin in a little frivolity; we all have sorrow and we all die, usually unpleasantly. A man can smile without accepting all the evil in the world. Lighten up, for crying out loud. I mourn for the moral dilettante. Bill Oliver Roads? We don`t need roads where we`re going. ***************************************** The above represent the opinions of the author and should not be considered the opinions of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner or any other office, agency, or official of the State of North Carolina.