Sunday, August 7, 2011

Laughing helps

In the vein of "don't let the suckers get you down," comes this analysis from beeryblog:

We are a land of many ‘belts’: the Bible Belt, the Rust Belt, the Sun Belt, to name a few.

But watching the near dissolution of our political institutions and our international reputation as a scientific, medical, and cultural leader at the hands of ideologically puritanical and intellectually useless base idiots, the time has come to name another of America’s ‘belts’: the DUMMY BELT.

He goes on to actually identify the Dummy Belt and suggests that next time they talk about succession...let em go.

As a matter of fact, who needs to be crass when a genteel response will do.

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2 comments:

  1. Even in the "dummy belt", the next generation is growing up with a much different set of values and attitude. No need to contemplate secession - -we just have to wait.

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  2. I hope you're right Infidel.

    I have family who inhabit the dummy belt and the news on that front with their kids isn't encouraging. But maybe they skew my perceptions.

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