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We are a society of stupid.

Now comes Tennessee with Redneck Reality. Here’s a snippet from the preview in the Chattanooga Times-Free Press.

Last week, State Sen. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, refiled a bill he says would protect our right to say “Merry Christmas” and protect Christmas celebrations in public schools.

Of course, those rights haven’t been endangered, but never you mind. Pretending there is a war on Christmas has helped Sarah Palin sell her new book, and stirring the fear pot has helped Fox News get more clicks on the Fox Nation opinion website.

More down home doings at the link.

Love and marriage,
love and marriage,
they go together like a
horse and carriage.

Or not.

Afterthought:

It must take a lot of energy to hate that hard.

. . . maybe you shouldn’t wear it.

A 28-year-old Burien woman was arrested Thursday after a burglary victim spotted the suspect wearing her stolen clothes the day after her house was broken into.

Because idiots get drivers’ licenses.

A Wisconsin man who became lodged in the windshield of a car that struck him said he turned to the driver and said, “Hello, I’m the guy you hit on the bicycle.”

The driver did not respond, but continued on, running a stop sign and hitting another vehicle before he arrived home, the cyclist, Steven Gove, told HTR Media about the Saturday incident.

The man finally noticed Gove when he stopped the car outside his home.

“He looked at me and said ‘Who are you? What are you doing in the car?'” Gove said.

Wait for it.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

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Barrista barrage.

Dick Polman struggles to understand the Republican rejection of evolution and science in general. A nugget:

It would wrong to assume that 11 percent of Republicans have simply changed their minds about evolution in just four years. Rather, it’s far more likely that the people who identify as Republicans today are strikingly more conservative than the people who identified as Republicans in ’09. This is not about changed minds, it’s about a changed makeup.

(snip)

This ever-ardent embrace of theocracy helps to explain why so many Republican politicians increasingly thump the Bible.

The ignorant in power is an ugly and dangerous thing.

You can’t make this stuff up.

A northwestern Pennsylvania couple has been charged with drunken driving after police say the man’s wife arrived drunk at the police barracks to pick up her husband following his arrest earlier New Year’s Day.

This Christmas light display turned into a real hit.

Beckwith said the women attacked her Sunday night over a bad parking job on Lakeview Avenue.

The mother took her 5-month-old twins and 9-year-old to look at the lights when she was confronted by the angry pair.

“I said, ‘You need to settle down. I have kids with me. Let me move my car. It’s no big deal,'” she described.

The next thing Beckwith knew, her head was being slammed against a car, she was punched in the face and her hair was being pulled.

A public relations twit.

Have you heard about the newest thing in iCrap?

Oh, my.

Police were called last night to a South Carolina residence to break up a fight between relatives who pushed and yelled at each other over the decorating of the family’s Christmas tree.

According to a sheriff’s report, the fight began around 10:30 PM and involved three women who live together at the Spartanburg home. The dispute between the women–aged, 76, 61, and 24–was triggered “due to the Christmas tree being decorated by 2 of the females while the other female was at work.”

Hippocritical oath.

They’ve got it.

Authorities say a police officer suffered a broken wrist as he broke up a brawl between two men waiting in line for Black Friday shopping deals at a Southern California Walmart store.

But wait! There’s more!

Bruce Maiman tries to understand why persons subject themselves to shopping on the Friday after Thanksgiving and finds, as Ecclesiastes teaches us, that it’s all illusion.

A nugget:

Another study found that camping out, standing in line the night before, induces a sense of loyalty that researchers call a “collective consumption ritual.” While most of us find waiting in line torturous, these people like it. They even look forward to it. One researcher said, “For the person who’s been doing this for decades, this is as much of their Thanksgiving tradition as having turkey.”

There ya go: The orgy of greed vs. the serenity of family*!

It probably doesn’t pay to tell these people that the best deals don’t even happen on Black Friday. The Wall Street Journal found that nearly one-third of last year’s Black Friday bargains being advertised had been available previously at lower prices.

But as one analyst explained, “People associate Black Friday with good prices, and that eliminates the need to check price.”

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*Methinks that dependeth on the family.

The internet is a public pool, and the FBI wants to go fishing in it:

A daybreak, guns-drawn FBI raid on the wrong house has spurred a lawsuit in which the bureau’s legal laser sights are now focused on the occupants’ Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Details at the link. Here’s the thumbnail:

The Feds raided a wrong house, looking for someone who had moved out two years before, frightening and humiliating the current residents. (The FBI, it would seem, is incapable of determining who lives where when. Maybe they need to talk with the NSA. Or possibly public records.)

The residents have now sued.

Now the FBI, as might any bureaucracy, is looking for some way out from under, natch, by smearing the victims.