People,

There is a daily rag in Boston called the Metro. It's owned by a huge media conglomerate and publishes in dozens of cities around the world as a condensed free alternative to a bulky and not-free regular newspaper.

Now, I have no gripe with the Metro on principle. It's a good way to get a 15 minute dose of completely dumbed down news, and fills the time of my subway ride quite nicely. My only real problem with it is the "man on the street" question area where they ask three Boston yahoos ridiculous questions and get their ridiculously non-expert expert opinions.

Example - today they asked three people this question "Do anti-depressant medications cause violent behavior in youths?" WHAT!!?!?!? Do I really think Doug the electrician is going to say "Well, according to recent clinical trials I've been conducting, it does appear that..."

Nevertheless, all three gave their very informed opinions on the subject. Thank god, because now I fully understand the complexity of this issue. In recent weeks I've also used this section of the paper to get a good grasp on how we should rebuild Iraq and whether or not North Korea currently has nuclear weapons.

We live in a stupid world sometimes.