Can the right-wing nuts get any crazier? krazee's Magic 8 ball says - - It is decidedly so.

Somebody please make them stop - if not for God's sake, then for the sake of decency and humanity.

Apparently the latest pants wetting fear du jour amongst right-winger loons is that a long planned, post Labor Day President Obama broadcast message to the nation's schools purportedly, according to the hyperventilating conservanuts, is actually going to be some nefarious, mesmerizing mass hypnosis trick which is intended to turn American rugrats into a Children of the Corn (or on planet Wingnuttia - Children of the Acorn) version of the Hitler Youth.

A famous U.S. journalist and distinguished author, and gratefully someone who is a member of the reality based community, once made this observation about America:

"We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal."

Carl Bernstein, U.S. journalist. Guardian (London, June 3, 1992)

Oh how prescient Bernstein was.

That was 1992, which unsurprisingly coincides with a time in U.S. history when another young, charismatic Democrat was on the verge of gaining the reigns of Presidential power. As inane and bizarre as it sounds, I am truly starting to believe that there must be something about young, handsome, virile Democrats in power that just drives the right wing conservatives absolutely fucking bonkers and causes them to march lemming-like straight into the abyss of self-destructive madness. Their current behavior certainly does seem to support that hypothesis.



----k