Apparently people can name more Simpsons characters than what is protected by the first amendment.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_ ... eedom_pollSo what? Is this the best thing these polling joints have to do? If you do anything over a steady, repetitive basis, of course you're going to know it better than something you see only every once in awhile! My sister watches the Simpsons religiously and I've stopped watching TV altogether (I used to watch the Simpson plenty tho') and I'd wager both of us could name almost all the major characters. I can name four of the five things protected by the first amendment (speech, press, religion, assembly, ?), but I wouldn't expect anyone else to.
The Media:, always stirring up a fuss and spelling inevitable doom and the downfall of decent society.
Edit: Before anyone berates society, this is also the same reason why people can remember an AC/DC lyric as opposed to their wives birthday.
Ha! Claim catastrophe now!
Big deal; most people watch TV more often than they sit down and re-memorize the particulars of the Constitution- of course they'll do better eciting Simpsons' characters' names...
But I had to grab my dictionary, with its copy of the Constitution, for a quick refresher...
The first ten articles, a.k.a. the Bill of Rights, cover the basic stuff: the right to complain, to form a militia, to hide stuff in your house, to be able to pay your bail... and the tenth article defines the rights of states.
11-17: the electoral process, the abolishment of slavery (nationwide), the early version (1870) of the ERA (hooray!), the impostion of Federal Income Tax in 1913(boooo!)...
Article 18 is the ridiculous Prohibition Amendment (1920; repealed
1933 [!!] with the 21st Amendment).
Then there's a few more concerning presidential terms, etc... the last one I see here is the 26th (Voting age lowered to 18 in 1971).
I know there are more (book is outdated), but I can't recall... but ...did you ever see the one where Lisa goes to Washington...?
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