Let’s talk about one of my favorite subjects…Stupid People.  Notice the capitalization? that’s because Stupid People are a category of human onto themselves and as such they deserve to wear Stupidity as a title, not just a description.
My Father used to tell me there is a difference between stupidity and ignorance.  Ignorance can be cured with a little knowledge, stupidity however is more often then not fatal.  I have no problem with ignorance, it’s the stupidity that makes me crazy!
Take the word “stupid” for example.  Many people will tell you not to use that word.  Parent’s in particular will tell their children that it’s not a nice word.  We classify the word stupid as we would a racial slur and that is because the stupid among us have reached a majority.  This is certainly evident by the last presidential election.  There is no other explanation for it other then the fact the terminally stupid, the phenomenally stupid have become a majority in this fine world of ours.
And why shouldn’t the stupid thrive in our country?  We have enacted an astonishing number of laws designed to protect them.  Helmet laws, seatbelt laws, etc.  We have to do this in order to protect the stupid from themselves.  If you ride a motorcycle without a helmet then, quite frankly, you deserve whatever injuries to your head you may receive.  The same goes for wearing a seatbelt.  If you’re doing 90 MPH and wreck your car, receiving injuries that may have been prevented by a seatbelt, you deserve it.  But wait! that’s not all, behold the airbag! Just in case one of our blithering idiots manage to actually get a driver’s license (and why shouldn’t they?  You don’t even have to speak or read english) and find themselves in a wreck without that seatbelt.  What’s that you say?  You haven’t a shred of common sense?  Don’t worry citizen we’ve  spent decades enacting various laws and rules to ensure your safety so that you may live a long and useless life converting oxygen to CO2.  The fact that many of these idiots are alive is because it’s illegal to kill them!
We have successfully undermined Darwin’s entire theory of evolution.  Throw it out  the window folks, it no longer applies.  Instead of the strong and quick and intelligent among us surviving, we shall protect out village idiots with everything we have so they may thrive and go forth and create more village idiots!  Where do you think all these laws come from anyway?  They come from the politicians.  They know they must protect the stupid among us.  If the intelligent reach a majority they know that they’re out on their asses!!!  Only the truly stupid can keep them in the lifestyle they’ve grown accustomed to!
Don’t worry gentle readers, this is a subject that I will revisit often. In the mean time, if you find yourself stuck in traffic and begin wondering about the people around you locked safely in their plastic and metal rolling living rooms, wondering which of them are the truly, terminally stupid, I propose this:  If you see a car with a plethora of stick on chrome accessories available from pep boys, or maybe even a set of plastic testicles hanging from a trailer hitch, look no further friends you’ve found another one!

I’m almost ashamed to say this, but I’ve been watching an awful lot of the whole Casey Anthony saga on TV.  I’d like to say that it’s out of some greater feeling of responsibility to the american people to provide responsible social commentary but it’s not.  It’s really just voyeuristic interest on my part.
So, now for the responsible social commentary part of the whole sordid affair.  If for no other reason then to make myself feel better for having watched so much of this daytime drama unfold.  I’ve watched the trial, the recaps, the pundits and I’ve heard a slew of “experts” talk about what went wrong and what went right with the entire fiasco.  Many of these so called experts are really nothing more then myself with the exception that they have been on TV whereas I just pound away blindly on a laptop posting to a website that only two people have seen, counting myself as one of those two people.
We now find ourselves in a CSI and Law and Order society where guilt is always proven beyond any shadow of a doubt by genius level technicians manipulating computer systems with capabilities only possible in the fertile imaginations of Hollywood writers.  After listening to interviews with many of the jurors it’s clear that there is no way for today’s prosecutors to provide the type of evidence these folks now require.  If a prosecutor is not able to show a computer simulation recreated from satellite coverage digitally enhanced to show the crime in explicit detail then there is no way they will get a conviction.
This really should be no surprise to anyone when they honestly think about it.  Everything we feel, the way we react to any given situation is colored by the things we’ve seen in movies and television.  We don’t have honest reactions to anything anymore.  We have been taught how to react and how to respond to things around us by the things we see in our magic boxes.  We respond to feelings of love, hate, fear, and joy with the same reactions we see people portray on screens. Those reactions are no longer our own.  They are not real.  And to make things that much worse, when we don’t respond to a given situation with the same reaction that others have seen in movies or television then we are obviously some kind of deviants, unable to express “true emotion”.  I believe this, more then anything, is what has done in Casey Anthony and made her the villain we love to hate.  Her inability to display any “true emotion”.  Now don’t get me wrong here.  I think she’s guilty as hell, I think she killed her kid for what reasons we may never know.  But I believe she’s guilty just like I believe that the sun will set tonight and rise tomorrow!  I believe that the only reason she went free was because the prosecution was unable to provide the type of evidence that the 12 folks in the jury box were expecting.
This, boys and girls, brings me to the most troubling aspect of all this trial coverage.  I was sitting on the couch watching all the post verdict coverage and one of the “experts” on one of the cable news channels was saying that this trial and verdict was indicative of what’s wrong with our jury system.  This same “expert” implied that we should move towards a “professional jury system”.  What the hell is a “professional jury system”?  Did this person honestly mean that instead of a jury of our peers we should be judged by people who are professional jurors?  Would these same professional jurors be like our professional politicians? or maybe our professional TSA agents?  I mean holy shit, how terrifying is the prospect of being judged by people who are professionals at what they do?  I’ll pass, thanks.  The only thing wrong with our jury system is that the folks serving on the juries are the ones that weren’t smart enough to get out of it.  Keep this in mind the next time you get a jury summons in the mail and immediately begin scheming of ways to get out of it. How would you like to be judged not by your peers but by “professional juries”?

There are a great number of people in this world that spend a lot of money on professional therapy to talk about their problems.  This is what this blog is, me talking about things that make me nuts.  It’s cheaper then a doctor! In the coming days and weeks if you find something on here that makes you laugh or makes you think about the world around you then so much the better.  I need someplace to rant and rave about whatever happens to be making me crazy at any given time.  And I know a lot of folks that could use a laugh, me included!