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April 1978
“Persons who rely on the Supreme Court test that something is
obscene only if it has no redeeming value are ‘depraved,
mentally-deficient, mindwarped queers’ the Utah Supreme Court said
in upholding a Salt Lake City obscenity ordinance.”
—Bill Birmingham, “Great Moments in Political Philosophy, No.
7”
“At the depths of the Great Depression, U.S. Geological Survey
data proved conclusively that if the United States continued to
consume petroleum at even the rather austere 1933 rate, the country
would run out of proved reserves in 15 years. In 1944, the United
States had only a 14-year supply of proved oil reserves at the
1940–44 rate of use.”
—Alan Reynolds, “Energy Conservation: How Much Is Too Much?”
“Leave television to the unregulated marketplace and what do you
get? At least in Italy, sex and nudity. In Church-dominated Italy,
there appears to be a huge untapped market for sexy shows.”
—“Laissez-Faire TV”
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