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July 1978
“Last year officials of the 12-square-block town of Kinney
applied for a $186,000 federal grant for its water and sewer
system. The experience so overwhelmed them with red tape that they
declared the town independent of the United States. The new
Republic of Kinney, which began issuing passports in April, has as
its official motto: ‘Filed in Triplicate.’ ”
—Trends, “New Secessionists”
“Television is a legally maintained oligopolistic business.
Three networks, with a few independent companies as their only
serious competition, have a virtual lock on the broadcasting
business.”
—Tibor R. Machan, “Sex and Violence Revisited”
“A decade ago…satires on such easy targets of opportunity as the
military, businessmen, or Vietnam were one thing. But satirizing
such things as state-controlled medicine simply wasn’t done. If you
went that far, you might as well satirize New Deal or Great Society
programs. And who could laugh at that sort of subject
matter?”
—John R. Coyne Jr., “Washington Laughs at the Welfare State”
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