Tuesday, December 09, 2003
Congress' Ongoing Neglect and Misuse of the Alphabet and Neolinguistics
This has got to be the most interesting title of a post I have done yet. I think it even beats "Gay Rights and Michele Branche". I was listening to NPR today and I heard a story that Congress wants to pass the "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003" or it's cute name "CAN-SPAM". This led me to think about Congress and their constant need to give big, complicated, multi-hundred page legislation cute names. The most notorious of these being "The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001" better know as the "USA Patriot Act". I think these cute names are a problem. I mean when you say you are against the "Patriot" Act you sound like a traitor. Now if you were against the "We Can Spy On Anyone We Damn Well Feel Like Act" that would be a different story. Now the Patriot Act gets a lot of the heat, but I think there are other bills that are just as bad and just as deceptively named. I think the politicians owe it to their constituents and we owe it to ourselves to not use these acronyms but instead think of proper titles for the legislation they try to pass under our watch. By the way speaking of acronyms, like the title? Tell me what you think. B
This has got to be the most interesting title of a post I have done yet. I think it even beats "Gay Rights and Michele Branche". I was listening to NPR today and I heard a story that Congress wants to pass the "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003" or it's cute name "CAN-SPAM". This led me to think about Congress and their constant need to give big, complicated, multi-hundred page legislation cute names. The most notorious of these being "The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001" better know as the "USA Patriot Act". I think these cute names are a problem. I mean when you say you are against the "Patriot" Act you sound like a traitor. Now if you were against the "We Can Spy On Anyone We Damn Well Feel Like Act" that would be a different story. Now the Patriot Act gets a lot of the heat, but I think there are other bills that are just as bad and just as deceptively named. I think the politicians owe it to their constituents and we owe it to ourselves to not use these acronyms but instead think of proper titles for the legislation they try to pass under our watch. By the way speaking of acronyms, like the title? Tell me what you think. B
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