Friday, April 25, 2014

Why Are You There?

It's a question I want to ask Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), who want the Federal Trade Commission to investigate ways to keep magazines from using photograph-altering software to enhance the appearance of people in their photographs.

I am unsure which assumption the two Congresswomen make is the stupider: That there's some way to measure acceptable amounts of altering when alteration finds, or that any government agency at any level should be involved in the matter.

Although a number of caffeine-heavy compounds promise people that their consumption will bring alertness and ease fatigue-caused roadblocks to cognition, no product has ever been shown to actually increase human intelligence. Washington D.C. water, on the other hand, can certainly be seen to reduce it a hundredfold.

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