controversy is a last resort for the talentless

1. Do you think cell phones cause cancer? excessive use can, yes
2. Are cell phone users more likely to get into car accidents? that's a poorly constructed hypothetical...
3. Do cell phones really interfere with a plane's navigation equipment? sure
4. Are cell phones immune from computer viruses? no, since they. are. computers.
5. Can using a cell phone at a gas station spark a fire? yup
6. What makes a guy see a chick as less of a cute little girl and more of a woman? start by calling a woman "a woman" and not "a chick" or "a cute little girl." Ever. Because words matter.
7. What is it about football that makes people want to watch it? what is it about anything that makes anything anything? People want to watch it.
8. What is the best show on TV? I have no idea, since I haven't regularly watched television in about 5 years
9. Are you more of a tape dispenser or a stereo speaker and why? I suppose I'm more of a tape dispenser than a stereo speaker, since I'm maybe not too flashy or thrilling but I get the job done with a minimum of fuss
10. What do you think is overrated? Nutella, Cameron Diaz, and Crossfit
11. What is underrated? yellow cake, Canadian actors generally, and green olives
12. Can spiders ump? yes
13. Did you interpret that as 'jump' or 'hump or 'bump' or other? other
14. What's the matter with adults today? they have no imagination
15. Have you ever worked 'off the books'? yes
16. Have you ever worked 9-5? If not, do you think you ever will? yes, I have for most of my adulthood
17. Do men or woman make better bosses? it depends on the man or woman
18. Do you believe that people should move up through a company or that the higher-up positions should be filled by people hired from outside the company? that depends on the company and the positions. Experience is an inordinately valuable teacher, but fresh eyes and perspective can bring great insight and innovation to a stagnant organization.
19. Why is it that no one seems to care about their job? I know lots of people who care about their jobs. You must be looking in the wrong place, or talking to the wrong people!
20. When I go into a store, why doesn't anyone know anything about what they are selling? maybe it's just you
21. When did you/will you graduate college? after 4 years
22. When will Eminem stop whining about his bad childhood and move on? when it stops paying off in cash money
23. I am drug free. Are you drug free? not your business
24. I have piercings and am getting tattoos. Do you have either? yep
25. Can you REALLY say that your way is the right way? for me, it is
26. Maybe there is a different way for everyone? seems like it
27. What do you think of the song 'Imagine'? it's made an ironically huge amount of money
28. Can you think of any reason I might have written this, other than I am bored with too much time on my hands? some sort of court-ordered therapy...
29. What is the purpose of art? to be art
30. How about movies? besides the fact that they, too, are art: to entertain and inform
31. Music? likewise, also art: and to entertain and engage
32. Do you think that anything has lost its value because it's become too 'commercial'? What? some music, once tied to advertising, loses its appeal in its original form. Some entertainers become better known for what they sell than for what they "do for a living." And so on.
33. Have you ever been promoted? yes
34. ...fired? not yet
35. What do you call your private area? Does it have a nickname? pri·vate ˈprīvit/
    adjective
    1. belonging to or for the use of one particular person only. (i.e., to me)
36. What parts of your body are shaved? once again: private
37. What is the American dream? heterosexual marriage, 2.5 children, dog, house in the suburbs
38. Is it the same as your dream? in parts, maybe?
39. Do you need to be right all the time? whether I need to or not: I'm not
40. There was a sculpture that was supposed to be displayed for a week in the Rockefeller Center in NYC of a falling woman - designed as a memorial to those who jumped or fell to their death from the World Trade Center. It was complained about as grotesque, inappropriate, and described as 'not art'. What do you think? that's a pretty creepy "memorial"
41. It was taken down early because it was seen as 'offensive'. What do you think about that? I agree with that, since the sensitivity of the many, many survivors of that tragedy surely outweighs the feelings (such as they are) of the artiste who created something so...odd
42. The artist, Fischl, said in a statement. "It was a sincere expression of deepest sympathy for the vulnerability of the human condition. Both specifically towards the victims of Sept. 11 and towards humanity in general." Are people just too sensitive? Or maybe people are NOT sensitive ENOUGH to the idea that others may have different views from them (or from the majority)? Look, there are plenty of things that can arguably be done in the name of art or expression or "the vulnerability of the human condition" that have absolutely zero to do with what they're purported to be.
    I can stick a plastic fork in a plate of leftover nachos and call it a sincere expression of deepest sympathy - but I'm full of shit, and anyone ought to know that for truth. There are plenty of insensitive people creating "art" that is just a nose-grind into the very thing it's supposed to be "sensitive toward," and their "get your grimy hands off my sincere expression" bullshit is just pretentious and attention-grabbing.
    I have an idea. Why not just create some art? Why not just go out and do something original, rather than snatching a headline from the death of thousands of innocent people, capitalizing on a tragedy, and behaving dreadfully? Why not try to live up to the best in human nature, rather than diminishing yourself to the lowest common denominator and then slinging your own shit at people who call you out for it?
43. Should these different, opposing or offensive views be allowed to be expressed freely and openly? Why or why not? Yep, I'm an art censor now. That seems likely.
44. What letter's sound do you like the best? X

[From the 5000-question meme; this is the first third of the twenty-eighth part (questions 2601-2632). The title quotation is from Criss Jami, from Healology]