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missroseroseFair warning: This is a Rose-Ranting-About-Stupidity-In-Politics post.
What this means: Normally, when I post about politics, I try to be fairly balanced in my analysis of the situation and give consideration to arguments for and against - there's already enough unthinking reactionary BS online, so I try not to add to it. This post, however, is me ranting, and it's in my personal blog, so I'm not going to try to be fair or balanced or thought-provoking. Because as much as I try to be an Eagle Scout in my online persona, I get pissed off like any other human being. So please bear with me, and/or skip this post if you don't feel like listening to me rant.
So without further ado...
As much as I love Alaska, I get so sick of living among the disproportionately high number of nutjobs we have here. I don't know if it's the geographical isolation or the cabin-fever-inducing winter weather or what, but Alaska hicks are truly a breed all their own. And, unfortunately, they're also the loudest folk here, which means that those of us who try to take a reasonable interest in politics and current events encounter their whining and complaining and ranting and raving far, far too often. Normally I try not to let it bug me, but it gets really frustrating - every time we make some progress legally (such as the recent Alaska Supreme Court decision to strike down the parental-notification-requirement for abortions for teenage girls), there's approximately a space of five nanoseconds in which to celebrate before the nutjobs start flooding the newspapers and online message boards with their Fox-News-inspired "OMG LEGISLATING FROM THE BENCH! WE ARE BECOMING MORAL-LESS SOCIETY!" drivel, none of which is true or often even relevant to the issue at hand. It's not even the fact that they disagree with me that I find so infuriating; it's the way they're so mouth-frothingly illogical and unreasonable about their point of view. There's simply no arguing with people like that.
I realize that's the joy of living in the United States with our Bill of Rights; freedom of speech also means freedom to be an ignorant, uninformed jerkweasel in public forums. But as much as I hate coming off as the intellectual elitist snob that I am, there are times that I really, truly wish we could ship all these people off to Antarctica. Let the penguins deal with them.
Hell, maybe *I'll* move to Antarctica. Start an intellectual elitist snob colony. Outside winter temperatures of -200 degrees Farenheit would be a small price to pay for isolation from such shining examples of humanity...
What this means: Normally, when I post about politics, I try to be fairly balanced in my analysis of the situation and give consideration to arguments for and against - there's already enough unthinking reactionary BS online, so I try not to add to it. This post, however, is me ranting, and it's in my personal blog, so I'm not going to try to be fair or balanced or thought-provoking. Because as much as I try to be an Eagle Scout in my online persona, I get pissed off like any other human being. So please bear with me, and/or skip this post if you don't feel like listening to me rant.
So without further ado...
As much as I love Alaska, I get so sick of living among the disproportionately high number of nutjobs we have here. I don't know if it's the geographical isolation or the cabin-fever-inducing winter weather or what, but Alaska hicks are truly a breed all their own. And, unfortunately, they're also the loudest folk here, which means that those of us who try to take a reasonable interest in politics and current events encounter their whining and complaining and ranting and raving far, far too often. Normally I try not to let it bug me, but it gets really frustrating - every time we make some progress legally (such as the recent Alaska Supreme Court decision to strike down the parental-notification-requirement for abortions for teenage girls), there's approximately a space of five nanoseconds in which to celebrate before the nutjobs start flooding the newspapers and online message boards with their Fox-News-inspired "OMG LEGISLATING FROM THE BENCH! WE ARE BECOMING MORAL-LESS SOCIETY!" drivel, none of which is true or often even relevant to the issue at hand. It's not even the fact that they disagree with me that I find so infuriating; it's the way they're so mouth-frothingly illogical and unreasonable about their point of view. There's simply no arguing with people like that.
I realize that's the joy of living in the United States with our Bill of Rights; freedom of speech also means freedom to be an ignorant, uninformed jerkweasel in public forums. But as much as I hate coming off as the intellectual elitist snob that I am, there are times that I really, truly wish we could ship all these people off to Antarctica. Let the penguins deal with them.
Hell, maybe *I'll* move to Antarctica. Start an intellectual elitist snob colony. Outside winter temperatures of -200 degrees Farenheit would be a small price to pay for isolation from such shining examples of humanity...
