salon.com — "The rise of Idiot America ... is essentially a war on expertise ... In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a scientist, or a preacher, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert." ~ Charles P. Pierce, from "Idiot America"
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catalysisJul 19, 2009
Holy s**t! A certified Net-Ware administrator? Your IQ must be off the charts!
shauncorleoneJul 20, 2009
The ones who are continually disappointed are the American people, as our ruling elite can count on being reelected over and over again as they continually pass legislation that lessens our freedoms as business owners, workers and individuals, all under the guise of fairness. Stop playing party politics, wake up and realize that it's all a charade by the empowered to keep their "jobs".
homercles337Jul 20, 2009
You have already failed. Good job you f**king dope. I take it you reject my challenge then? Ok, i will now refer to you as HYPOCRITE.
discounderpantsJul 20, 2009
@zacharytelschowLook... I think we are getting cross lines on terminology. Weather it be the government or an insurance company the rationing of health care happens. Leaving arguments of government ineptitude versus corporate ineptitude aside for a moment(and I have seen massive amounts of ineptitude in both places personally) the motivation of a government rationing health care... that is allotting resources is based on scarcity and pretty much that alone... a public insurance company has scarcity and profit motivations to drive it limiting the resource.
ddrskataJul 21, 2009
Asking that a president be able to sit down for a beer or throw a football competently is like demanding that all police officers be gourmet chefs, or that computer programmers know how to crochet.
cmp1966Jul 22, 2009
Speaking as a resident of Arizona for over 20 years, and someone who at one time admired Sen. McCain -- we dodged a bullet when he lost the election!But Palin is flat-out, truly nuts, and when she lost out on being VP, we dodged a cannonball!
oldskoolslackerJul 23, 2009
Yes. I fear her. Everything I know tells me that she doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected. But at the same time, I fear that she could actually win... somehow. I fear that she could appeal to enough redneck, religious idiots to do it. I like to think this is an irrational fear, but I still fear she could draw the morons out of their trailer parks and squeak her way to the White House. And to quote Jack Cafferty, "... if that doesn't scare the hell out of you, it should!".
papashawnJul 29, 2009
Bushx2? You mean Obama?
grimwaldJul 30, 2009
Now that Palin's *ahem* "stepped down" as Alaskan governor,we have one less asinine politician to deal with...That is,until she decides to enter the 2012 presidential race-which, incidentally,is the year the ancient Mayans predicted the world would end. Ominous coincidence? Yes,indeed.
Closed AccountAug 2, 2009
It?s gone to far. We have to fight back. These un-elected, un-vetted, power mad zealots are out of control. There is NO separation of church and state what-so-ever for them.Our government is to be used as a tool for their ignorance period. They are actively working to replace our democracy with their Christian Theocracy...When they say ?Christian Nation?, they don?t mean a nation with a lot of churches, they mean a nation controlled by a ?Superior Christian? as they see themselves.Think that is saying too much?Google "c" street and do some reading, explain that if you can....
mferrari3Aug 4, 2009
Yes, my pastimes include aborting and eating teh babbies.Keep this stuff up, people like you are just destroying your own party from the inside.
gpageauAug 5, 2009
I'm pretty sure you need to know more than science to run the country, like economics, foreign relations, history. Since you can't be elected president until you are 34, you've got some time to become more well-rounded.
graphictruthAug 8, 2009
Res ipsit loquitur.
outlaw524Aug 8, 2009
yes all you can do is run your mouth!!! and it's not much!! don't let it over load your A--!!!you can have that nut in the white house!! he never ran a candy store and he thinks he can run GM or the USA???what a crock!!!