Editor's Column, Opinion

EDITOR’S COLUMN – The new addiction?

I watched the 2006 film “Idiocracy” again for the umpteenth time last week. (Note: it’s not a suitable flick for those who are sensitive to crass, bawdy humor. Consider yourselves warned.) 

Raunchy humor aside, it’s a horrifying depiction of what happens to humanity when they allow themselves to be dumbed down over successive generations, losing interest in and respect for education and science and basic facts and being lulled into complacency by foolish entertainment and sloppy…