Are you serious?

Sometimes I feel like I should just bury my head in the sand so I don't have to know more about my fellow Americans.

1. About 50% of U.S. High School students think that the government should regulate what newspapers print. I keep trying to think why anyone would think that would be a good idea, but I can't come up with a single possibility.

2. I keep reading about these right wing Republican Christians who think that the end of the world is quickly approaching. They don't care about the environment; they don't care about war; they don't care about the future; they just want the world to end. How can there be reasonable political debate when we are all living in such different realities (or unrealities for that point)?