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I've been trying to grasp for a truth that is so obvious that all of us know it. But it's not a polite truth, so we don't talk about it. Yet I think it's important to say it out loud, because it is a truth that haunts our national discourse. As a nation we are under the thumb of idiots. Not just indoctrinated, or wrong-thinking, or power-hungry, or manipulative, or even malevolent people. No, I mean real lowbrows, people who constantly fall for really stupid ideas. Neanderthals. (Look at the Governor of California just running the state budget into the...

Political observers are falling over themselves trying to determine the cladistics of a newly-emergent population of political animal, the Rudy booster. This appears to be the first new species of Republican to emerge in over two decades in the Family Republicanae (the last being Conservatisi reagani), and displays a particularly odd range of behaviors that call into question the long-term political viability of the new species, as well as that of Republicanae in general if they assume a position of dominance. Some observers have proposed classifying the new population as a subspecies of Rinous rockefelleri, whereas others have made a...

The Laura Ingraham Show, today May 3rd, spotted a clip of guest and actor Martin Short with host Bill Maher popping off insults{or was it just all edgy fun} on the South, Jesus Freaks, Snake Handlers, Low Brows and Goobers on April 29's HBO “REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER”. I discovered and cut the transcript from Episode #310 for FReeper read - Real Time...With Maher and Short. Full text available at http://www.safesearching.com/billmaher/print/t_hbo_realtime_042905.htm CUT MAHER: All right, let's meet our panel. [applause] All right, let's meet our panel. He is the Lt. Governor of Maryland and a rising star in the...