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Two Steps from Idiocracy

Brian Doherty | 7.26.2007 8:48 PM

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This afternoon on CNN Headline News I saw an approximately 2-minute news segment about the fact that people enjoy watching online videos of people falling down.

And for your entertainment this evening, videos of people falling down (and Toad the Wet Sprocket).

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Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).

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