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We're not the only ones who are outraged - here are some outside outrages that caught our eye!

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One Minute Outrage - Cultural

Issue: Parents keep griping about the sleazy clothing lines for kids, but someone is buying all those sheer blouses, half-shirts and short-short skirts made special for grade-schoolers.


Impact: As long as there's money to be made, companies will keep manufacturing--and pushing--the clothes we wish our kids weren't wearing...and they'll continue to see them on television, in store windows and on their friends and set their sights on a look we'd rather they didn't even know about.


Read More: When Tweens Dress Like Tramps...

One Minute Outrage - Political

Issue: President Bush signs Executive Order allowing the federal government to freeze without notice the assets of various classes of people and organizations “destabilizing” the effort in Iraq—and no one notices.


Impact: Unknown; the possibly impact under the terms of the order is much more far-reaching than the quick description at the press briefing would indicate.



Read More: Invisible Executive Order Deserves A Closer Look

One Minute Outrage - Legal

Issue: Police departments in major cities across the country aren't content to arrest self-made criminals, but have decided to hit the streets and see whether they can create some more.

Impact: Time and tax dollars poured into sting operations designed to test ordinary people and create crimes that would never have been; meanwhile, who's minding the store?  Hundreds of thousands of unserved felony warrants lie inactive across the country while police experiment in subways, department stores and on streetcorners.

Read More:  Make Your Own Criminal – It's So Much Easier than Chasing the Real Ones

One Minute Outrage - Cultural

Issue: Easy access to media in the Internet age has exaggerated the drive for the proverbial "15 minutes of fame"--and what ordinary people are willing to do in order to achieve that fame spirals further out of control every day.

Impact: As what we're willing to do for attention and a little slice of fame edges further and further beyond the bounds of sanity and safety, what it takes to achieve even fleeting notoriety expands as well, creating a spiral of ever-increasing risk-taking, violence, and life-altering choices in the quest for a moment in the sun.

Read More: Attention Whores: A Social Epidemic

What's Real About Reality TV?


Reality TVReality television survives, ironically, through a carefully maintained web of lies. Some of those lies are simple and wouldn’t surprise most people: spontaneous events are shot multiple times, scenes are filmed out of season, time sequences are misrepresented. But the larger lies are the ones sold to the participants—lies that are absolutely acceptable because the contract says so. When you step into reality television, you must agree—explicitly—to be deceived, and that you have no recourse if the outcome of that deception is harmful. All well and good, perhaps, for adults who understand what they’re getting into. But what about an etiquette-school teacher who thinks she’s part of a documentary and ends up in Borat’s movie? A child rented out to Kid Nation?

Read More: What Does “Reality” Really Mean, Anyway?
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