Smart people are depressing, stupid people are scary

Subject the first - http://www.livejournal.com/users/jabber/624262.html

Subject the second - http://www.afa.net/petitions/intelligentdesign/TakeSurvey.asp (at last check, it was running something like 95/5 against evolution)

axissilverhand asks a good question - what did people do to keep from going bugshit on a killing spree in the days of yore?

Or did they go on bugshit killing sprees, and the lack of efficient means of doing so, coupled with lack of instant-gratification media saturaton, made doing so less visible?

Gas is up around $2.60 for the cheap stuff here today. It cost twice as much to fill up my car two weeks ago as it did two years ago, and gas cost 10% less.

Hey, Dubya, I guess that war wasn't about oil, was it? Bet you and your cronies aren't making a bundle on that crude pushing $70 a barrel, huh? How about that three billion $$ you appropriated from Saddam - still using it to buy off political flacks in the Green Zone, free of congressional oversight?

Since it's August, and our Asshole In Chief is on vacation, blissfully disregarding the unpleasant reality that's literally camping on his doorstep in the person of a soldier's grieving mother, not to mention the quagmire (DRY QUAGMIRE!) he's embroiled the armed forces in. . . who wants to bet that something Very Bad doesn't happen between now and Halloween? Something like, I dunno, we invade another country (hey, Iran. . . you might want to start stockpiling insurgents and IED materials now)

Anyone heard anything about Tom DeLay's head being served on a silver plate, as he so richly deserves? Didn't think so.

How about Gary Condit? They ever bother to follow up on that asshole?

What about Cheney's lawsuit? Gitmo?

That jackass Bolton say anything stupid to the UN yet?

Fuck intelligent design; I demand intelligent action.

Moo. Baah.

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Qualm 23

23rd QUALM

Bush is my shepherd; I dwell in want.
He maketh logs to be cut down in national forests.
He leadeth trucks into the still wilderness.
He restoreth my fears.
He leadeth me in the paths of international disgrace for his ego's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of pollution and war, I will find no exit, for thou art in office.
Thy tax cuts for the rich and thy media control, they discomfort me.
Thou preparest an agenda of deception in the presence of thy religion.
Thou anointest my head with foreign oil.
My health insurance runneth out.
Surely megalomania and false patriotism shall follow me all the days of thy term,
And my jobless child shall dwell in my basement forever.