Andrea Yates verdict - huh?

[--Pete]

Hi,

We get the Clinton's and the Bush's because we tolerate them. Just like Springer, Elimidate and Survivor... Enough people vote/watch for that crap so we all get to live with it.

There is a big difference, though. Ignorant idiots watching bad television, and the television industry that panders to them, has no impact on me. There's enough good television, movies, books, games, etc. that I can ignore the crap preferred by the room temperature IQs.

But when the officials elected by those same ignorant idiots pass laws and establish policies, then I cannot avoid them. I have to carry my passport on my trips to Canada. And the nonsense at the border causes me to reduce the number of those trips, and thus to eat excellent Greek food less often. The two plus hours of getting through security at the Airport means that flying from Seattle to Vancouver is no longer a viable option. Driving is cheaper and faster. And those are the pin pricks. The cost of supporting a useless war propagated by lies and engendered to make some rich people richer is an insult to the nation. And the encroachment on the civil liberties of the population at large in order to make them behave more in line with the principles of the most superstitious and ignorant of our population is nothing more than defecation on the principles this country was founded on.

So, while both our popular entertainment and our government institutions are the lowest form of crap, only the government can force us to wallow in it.

--Pete