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Meditation Upon Charlie Sheen, the Media, and the Eighth Anniversary of 9/11

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It waits for each of us, it seems, (in our own time and after our own fashion) to finally grow up in a hardened world of self-interested cause and effect. It waits for us to bring forth the requisite courage and curiosity to ask tough questions about the world around us; and to muster the strength to tell the truth about that which we discover, even if that "truth" of ours proves painful to communicate.

Which, if you think about it, is precisely what Charlie Sheen is asking us to do.

Before I sign off tonight, allow me to inform you that Charlie Sheen has since offered to publicly debate each of his high-profile detractors in the media, including Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Meghan McCain (the daughter of Senator John McCain), including each of the Popular Mechanics editors that claim to be the authority on de-bunking 9/11 conspiracy claims. Sheen's only request is that the debate be aired unedited, on live television.

Each one of these people have yet to take up the challenge (and that includes President Obama and those "twenty minutes" of his Sheen requested).

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