[Skooz]

Thanks for letting me vent. That last sentence isn't really true, but I DO envy the people who can just let it go and who can look at Dan Rather, Bill Clinton, Hillary, or Peter Jennings and not wretch. How sweet it must be.

[verity]

Need new glasses. At first, I saw the word "Mormon."

[The Duke]

Hey, if you find a cure let me know...

[seams2me]

At the Red Robin diner the other night, I got a coaster with my drink that said "If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?"

[Garrisson Lee]

Why do you think so many people like drugs? Look, it could be worse. My father-in-law reads a couple of papers every day and watches every news show, and is always yelling about how the republicans are destroying the country and their "agenda" has to be stopped. Now, there's a moron.

[OWK]

I wish I was a Moron!

Done.

[Hugh Akston]

I wanna be plugged back into the Matrix. And I don't wanna remember any of this.

And I want to be rich...

[CathyRyan]

Ah, the care free joy of getting bored with a 30 minute news broadcast because it is to long...

[AmericaUnited]

I wish I was a Moron

I am a fourth generation genie and have granted your wish.

What are your other two wishes?

[mamaduck]

Great Rant, Great Links. I suffered parental-imposed ignorance as a child and young adult and really, ignorance IS not bliss, it's damn' scary!

[Rum Tum Tugger]

I would rather be a sad Socrates, than a satisfied pig.

-- John Stuart Mills

[Catie]

You and I are two birds of a feather (as are many of our "Freeple" compatriots, I suspect). The worst, I fear, is that our children/spouses are too much Rhett Butler, riding around Atlanta looking for the dame while the city burns.

I consider myself lucky that my hubby puts up with my "addiction" to current events. Heck, given my lineage (daughter of a "pol"; permitted to arrive late to grade school day after conventions' last nights; sister 1 worked for McCord at CREEP; sister 2 wrote the letters (on Reagan's behalf) to the Lebanon bombing victims' families, etc.), it could be much worse. I could have actually gone into politics myself!

Makes me smile when hubby (a banker) ponders, "how can liberals be so stupid?," or little one favors Buchannan 'cuz, "he's the only one who's truly pro-life." Lesson: count your blessings where you find them.

[sweetliberty]

You are making me nostalgic. I grew up not giving a hoot what was going on, and please don't tell me about it in the middle of the Beverly Hillbillies! Oh, I had opinions, but they were not consuming. Our security never seemed to be at stake so all was right with the world. Worrying about it was not my job; that's what we pay the leaders for. Then something happened; Bill Clinton became president. I found myself frequently having these increasingly disturbing feelings of uneasiness. Upon closer examination I recognized that it was born of an underlying sense of insecurity...not personal security, but national security. About 4 years into the Clinton administration I realized we were in deep doo-doo. I turned on Fox news and haven't turned it off since. I got online on election day and I'm still here.

I work with people who could care less and really don't want to be bothered with facts. When we are out on the road together, they are drinking and playing cards by the pool while I am glued to the tv and eating in my room. As it turns out, my instincts were right, but I too often long for the days of ignorance; however I realize also that that would require a return to having nothing to be concerned about. Thanks to Bubba Clinton, it may be a very long time before we are able to relax and forget about it.

On a more positive note, we have George W. Bush in the white House and not Al (the inventor) Gore. And we have all our friends here at Free Republic, so it could be much worse. Just imagine if all we had were Al Gore, CNN, and DU. Could've happened. Didn't. Perhaps had we been less vigilant the defining difference may have cut the other way. Count your blessings fellow FReepers. I rest my case.

[sweetliberty]

I think if this gets out, the DU'ers will be rolling on the floor obviously drunk with their own sense of self-importance and delusions of enlightenment.

[Focault's Pendulum]

I see these idiots on TV and I want to pick up something and throw it at the screen--he just chuckles and turns the channel to Bonanza. How does he do that?

You keep letting your brother in law hog the remote.

[MARTIAL MONK]

So you want to be a moron, huh? Well I are one and let me tell you it ain't all peaches and cream. It took me years and years to attain this high level and we don't just let anyone in. There are piles of books and magazines not to read and there are politicians to listen to. It's a big world out thar and it's really, really hard to ignore it. Iffin you want the short course just go to DU for a couple of days and they will bring you right up to speed.

[GraniteStateConservative]