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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

In the early 1970s I worked for a small weekly newspaper. The electric typewriter somehow punched tiny holes in yellow ticker-tape paper about 1-1/2 inches wide. When I finished an article, I connected the rolled tape to a computer the size of a refrigerator. It read the codes and spit out the article. Today reporters feed stories from lap tops or IPads.
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As technology increased, America’s morality decreased. Vulgar innuendos, blushed at in the 1950s, brazenly splash prime time television today.
 
Robert H. Bork, the ultra-conservative judge who was thrashed by liberals when nominated for the Supreme Court years ago, wrote a book in 1996 about it.. “Slouching Towards Gomorrah” is about the decline of America’s culture. He said, “A nation’s moral life is the foundation of its culture.” The dive started during the Vietnam war in the 1960s. We need to put the brakes on. God have mercy on America.