Well, a couple of racist jerkwads on a local schoolboard in Virginia are in hot water for sending blatantly racist e-mails (it was a picture of bare breasted tribal women in Africa with the caption “Michelle Obama’s High School Reunion”) in about the 1 millionth occurrence of that kind of thing. Well, kind of tepid water. They were both censured by their colleagues, and one was asked to resign, but that’s not exactly the same as forced to resign, so he won’t. And the 2nd one had the brilliantly original excuse (just kidding again – out of the approximately 1 million occurrences of stupid e-mails like this, this excuse has been used in about 99% of them) that he didn’t start the e-mail, he just passed it on.
This would only be humorous if I actually knew you and this was actually your dog.
Which is to say that even among the slack-jawed, squirrel eating, cousin humping, confederate flag waving morons who call themselves proud conservatives, he was not one of the creative minds. Even among sheep, he was a follower.
But, enough about the Tea Party. Sure, they are the ones passing around the vile, racist memes and fanning the flames of political hate, but it’s nothing new and I don’t have a solution for it. For those not actually holding political office, it is a free speech issue and they have every right to be dumber than dogshit and just about as funny. For those who do hold political office, we can just hope that their constituents eventual tire of them and vote them out, but the problem is, to democracy’s credit and its detriment, they are representative of their constituents.
I’m more bothered, actually, by all the stupid non-political stuff that gets forwarded. I get really tired of the word search charts with the caption saying “90% of people will see the same word first.” It’s probably true, because most people will see a well known word, spelled left to right, near the center of a line, before they see one spelled top to bottom near the lower right corner, for instance. Also, there’s no good result. There’s a 90% chance you are a lame conformist and a 10% chance you are a loner fucking weirdo who has problems forming long term relationships and will probably die alone and unfulfilled.
It took a lot of will power but I have finally trained myself to scroll past those.
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