Sad thing is, I know people like this.

[Erinome]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuI2LEKHGiQ

I think the video speaks for itself. People in the south aren't all like this. I'm in the south, after all, and I'm... nothing like these people, but I do come in contact with people like this on a daily basis.

[thesummerqueen]

Yeah - best remember which state this stuff was from. We relegate these nutjobs to the mountains in the west.

[Erinome]

And Rick Santorum poo-poos education?!?! Not hard to see why!

[thesummerqueen]

The discussion that went on around that entire clip was incredibly disheartening...thank Bob for "New Rules".

[Erinome]

Thank Bob for Bill Maher, Real Time and New Rules!

Friday's New Rules were particularly fantastic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAXXVpGpJnk

Just in case anyone missed it.

[thesummerqueen]

The bit about Putin had me on the floor.

[Whateverist]

I'll bet you are surrounded by folks like this. My family is stocked full of them, sad to say.

Yesterday on public radio there was something about more municipalities charging for services to get around raising taxes. In the story I heard, someone who collected payment on behalf of the city government pointed out that the check one person wrote to have the street lights on his street turned on was higher than what it would have cost him if a tax initiative which would have turned on everyone's lights and paid for other public services. The guy insisted he wouldn't have supported that on principle anyway. Selfish, misanthropic and unreasoning to the end.

[thesummerqueen]

You know what the problem is in this country? We refuse to actually understand what things are, and instead get upset at what they're called.

[Whateverist]

You know what the problem is in this country? We refuse to actually understand what things are, and instead get upset at what they're called.

So true and sadly the conservatives have really mastered the art of branding ideology for mass consumption.

[Minimalist]

We get one or two of them coming here every fucking day sprinkling jesus dust around and thinking they are "saving" us.


Assholes.