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Who votes for these gomers?
Category: Creationism
Posted on: March 11, 2008 3:40 PM, by PZ Myers
Florida also has an "academic freedom" bill in the works, and they're using Ben Stein's sillly movie to promote it … and if you want to find legislators with cobwebs in their cranium, Florida is the place to go.
Neither Hays nor his co-sponsor, Brandon Republican Sen. Ronda Storms, could name any teachers in Florida who have been disciplined for being critical of evolution in the science classroom. Better known for his ''Win Ben Stein's Money'' game show, Stein made the documentary to document how evolution critics have supposedly run afoul of mainstream science in higher academics.
''I want a balanced policy. I want students taught how to think, not what to think,'' Hays says. ``There are problems with evolution. Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half human?''
No comment.
Comments
Tell the goober to look in the mirror.
Posted by: Richard Harris | March 11, 2008 3:43 PM
And there were people dim enough to elect these malicious dimwits into office?
It makes me so embarrassed to live on the same continent sometimes.
Posted by: Stanton | March 11, 2008 3:43 PM
Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half human?'
A chimpanzee?
Posted by: Abbie | March 11, 2008 3:45 PM
English translation: "See, we're not really antiseimt- antisenmit- people-who-hate-Christ-killers! We like Ben Stein just fine!"
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | March 11, 2008 3:45 PM
And why are there still monkeys if evolution is real, huh? Why hasn't every living thing evolved into a human? Huh? Checkmate, evolutionists!
*sigh* n00bs.
Posted by: J | March 11, 2008 3:47 PM
Abbie beat me to it. Although not literally true, still amusing and relatively true. Of course, these morons probably don't realize that a chimp isn't a monkey...
Posted by: Braxton Thomason | March 11, 2008 3:48 PM
'Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half human?'
Ray Comfort?
Posted by: JimboB | March 11, 2008 3:49 PM
What about Pygmys and Dwarfs?
Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | March 11, 2008 3:50 PM
You know, evidence-based science (of which he knows nothing), balanced against evidence-free religion. Now that's balance.
Got to teach kids how to think, you know, ignorantly and without referring to legitimate evidence. Otherwise they might be able to think for themselves, instead of "thinking" like Hays does.
And yeah, have you ever seen a science journal, or a group of scientists, discussing whether or not half-monkey/half-humans exist? They don't allow it, seriously, because it's baseless and too stupid. Where's the balance? What are the stupid people like Hays to do, if science gets beyond their decidedly limited possibilities?
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
Posted by: Glen Davidson | March 11, 2008 3:53 PM
So the next time a hurricane hits Florida, can we point to it and say "this is God getting revenge on you for promoting ID in the classroom!!!" ?
Posted by: Aaron Kinney | March 11, 2008 3:55 PM
"Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half human?"
Yes, they're called 'honkeys'. Many of them become politicians.
Posted by: allonym | March 11, 2008 3:56 PM
''I want a balanced policy. I want students taught how to think, not what to think,'' Hays says. `
He can say that with a straight face. I'm impressed. I guess the Baby Jesus gives him to strength to lie like that.
Posted by: Bob L | March 11, 2008 3:57 PM
It's worse than that, we're exporting this stupidity around the globe.
Posted by: Moses | March 11, 2008 4:02 PM
My uncle Mike and his built in fur coat...
Posted by: Moses | March 11, 2008 4:04 PM
It's part of the Orwellian named "Academic Freedom" crap David Horowitz and the other wing-nuts are spewing. The sad part is that even though those dogs aren't all fed by the same hand, they all pull the sled of intolerance together.
Posted by: Moses | March 11, 2008 4:07 PM
Racism is funny.
Posted by: Jon Merz | March 11, 2008 4:14 PM
Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half human?'
No, but I've seen a jackass masquerade as a human.
Posted by: Chris | March 11, 2008 4:16 PM
All this coverage is pretty much guaranteeing that the movie will get into lots of theaters.
All the willfully ignorant people who feel oppressed by the better educated segment of the population will watch it and have their stupid prejudices validated by Ben.
Ben Stein will have his little triumph.
Very sad.
Posted by: CalGeorge | March 11, 2008 4:18 PM
"Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half human?"
I think I just read the words of a man who nearly has the mental processing power of a monkey. Does that count?
Posted by: Aaron | March 11, 2008 4:19 PM
Um, he wants the students to be taught how to think? How does he feel about Florida legislators being taught how to think?
Posted by: Kelly | March 11, 2008 4:19 PM
Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half human?'
I'm 95% chimp and 4% human!!
Posted by: Jonathan Smith | March 11, 2008 4:20 PM
The only problem I see is that it isn't working fast enough to rid us of boobs like Hays.
Posted by: idahogie | March 11, 2008 4:21 PM
"Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half human?"
No, but I've seen a total ass.
Ignorance like this reminds me of a friend who advocated a human competency exam that would include knowing how to spellcheck an email and being able to add a column of numbers in Excel. I would add the question, "Does evolutionary theory say that there were half monkey, half human creatures?"
Posted by: Tosser | March 11, 2008 4:24 PM
Bart: How would I go about creating a half-man, half-monkey-type creature?
Ms.K: I'm sorry, that would be playing God.
Bart: God shmod! I want my monkey-man!
Is it wrong that almost everything reminds me of a Simpson's episode?
Posted by: Norm | March 11, 2008 4:26 PM
Forget 'votes for', who the fuck is feeding, clothing, and wiping the ass of this brainless troglodyte? Hell, they pulled the plug on Terri Schiavo, and she demonstrated nine times the brain activity that this nuchal cord knucklehead exhibits.
What kind of quality of life can this brain abscess expect? For FSM's sake, give this man a plastic drycleaning bag and let nature take its course.
Posted by: Brownian, OM | March 11, 2008 4:30 PM
Yowza! How do these people even get out of bed in the morning without killing themselves?
Posted by: Dan | March 11, 2008 4:31 PM
Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half human?
Can you spell mirror?
Posted by: Alfonso | March 11, 2008 4:34 PM
It seems you and I are on the same track, Brownian.
Posted by: Dan | March 11, 2008 4:34 PM
BUT ... I've seen PLENTY of Half-DWARF/Half-GIANT's ...
They're called ... normal people!
As for PYGMIES - what about their mental capacity ??
Posted by: G. Tingey | March 11, 2008 4:38 PM
The objectional term was coined by those who were once thought (by actual racists) to be half-man, half-monkey. It was a reaching attempt at ironic (sardonic?) humor. Please take no offense.
Posted by: allonym | March 11, 2008 4:39 PM
@5 noobs are right. I cant believe this. I am so angry!!!
Posted by: angryguy! | March 11, 2008 4:39 PM
"Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half human?"
With due apologies to monkeys and humans everywhere, I believe about 50 million people voted for such a creature in 2000 and then about 60 million did it again in 2004.
Posted by: Anonymoustache | March 11, 2008 4:42 PM
"Ever seen a half-man and half-monkey?"
Yeah.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey-man_of_New_Delhi
Posted by: Thoracantha | March 11, 2008 4:46 PM
From the story:
Right in line with everything else they do. Say one thing, mean another ...
Posted by: Efogoto | March 11, 2008 4:54 PM
allonym,
This response comes to you from a very pale caucasian raised in the backwoods of MS.
Don't worry, it was funny.
Back to lurking.
Posted by: BGT | March 11, 2008 4:56 PM
It might be worth it to create a humanzee if it would get the creos to admit to the reality of evolution. But no, they'd just call it a satanic abomination. Mad science just can't win.
Posted by: Nemo | March 11, 2008 5:02 PM
I'm with you, Brownian.
signed,
just another Honkey.
(#11 made me laugh so hard)
Posted by: janeothejungle | March 11, 2008 5:03 PM
I think the movie "Idiocracy" may be prophetic.
The world seems to be getting stoopider and stoopider.
Posted by: Dumdum | March 11, 2008 5:06 PM
I'd say that they broke the Ultimate-Crazy-Florida-Female-Republican Mold after they made Katherine Harris.
....Of course, that didn't keep them from trying to make another using the broken shards of the mold to make another. The result was Ronda Storms.
Posted by: Diego | March 11, 2008 5:07 PM
''I want a balanced policy. I want students taught how to think, not what to think,'' Hays says.
Yes, they shouldn't be taught any facts, only how to explore things for themselves. It builds character, for instance, to learn for yourself that sticking a fork in an electrical outlet is bad.
Stop the fork/outlet indoctrination!
Posted by: gg | March 11, 2008 5:08 PM
Q) Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half human?
A) Mick Jagger.
Posted by: Janine, ID | March 11, 2008 5:12 PM
You lose. Go home.
(Lying xians -- what are the odds?)...
Posted by: Bob | March 11, 2008 5:13 PM
Ronda Storms is a notoriously horrible human being.
She was outraged when a library in the county had a display of books for gay pride week or month or whatever, and got the whole county board in an uproar to ban it.
Posted by: Craig | March 11, 2008 5:14 PM
This is hilarious, coming (as it so often does) from the anti-intellectual Abstinence-Only, Just-Say-No crowd.
(FWIW, I thought the "honky" joke was funny, too. FWIW, I'm about as white as a pure Slav can be. FWIW, I am open to being convinced that it wasn't funny.)
Posted by: Kseniya | March 11, 2008 5:50 PM
"I'm a monkey"
--M. Jagger
(thanks, Janine!)
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | March 11, 2008 5:55 PM
What about PYGMIES + DWARFS!!
Eejits.
Posted by: maxi | March 11, 2008 5:57 PM
"I want a balanced policy. I want students taught how to think, not what to think," Hays says.
Be careful what you wish for, Mr. Hays. Remember when you folks called for Florida students to be taught that evolution is a "scientific theory"?
If schools actually managed to teach students how to think, religion would be dead within a generation.
Posted by: Jeff Dee | March 11, 2008 5:58 PM
Stupidity is not only a major U.S. export. The Vatican is in serious competition. It has invented some new deadly sins.
"After 1,500 years the Vatican has brought the seven deadly sins up to date by adding seven new ones for the age of globalisation. The list, published yesterday in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, came as the Pope deplored the "decreasing sense of sin" in today's "securalised world" and the falling numbers of Roman Catholics going to confession."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3517050.ece
"Those who trust in themselves and in their own merits are, as it were, blinded by their own 'I', and their hearts harden in sin. Those who recognise themselves as weak and sinful entrust themselves to God, and from Him obtain grace and forgiveness."
The Pope also complained that an increasing number of people in the secularised West were "making do without God".
- In case you didn't know what loving gawd has in store for you.
"The original offences and their punishments
Pride Broken on the wheel
Envy Put in freezing water
Gluttony Forced to eat rats, toads, and snakes
Lust Smothered in fire and brimstone
Anger Dismembered alive
Greed Put in cauldrons of boiling oil
SlothThrown in snake pits "
Read 'em and weep.
Posted by: bernarda | March 11, 2008 5:59 PM
Does this mean they will be teaching evolution in sunday school as an "alternative explanation?" Along with Big Bang cosmology and radioisotope dating of the earth?
Posted by: raven | March 11, 2008 6:01 PM
allonym, Kseniya, I'm so white I'm in danger of getting moonburn, and I thought the joke was funny, too.
Posted by: thalarctos | March 11, 2008 6:02 PM
"Have you ever seen half-monkey, half-human?"
... meditate on this one. Really, it's very profound. In fact, it's the deep, deep, rock bottom.
Posted by: benji | March 11, 2008 6:02 PM
"Gomers" is such a funny word. I crack up every time PZ uses it.
Posted by: Gomer Simpson | March 11, 2008 6:07 PM
These "Academic Freedom" bills in Florida are just another creationist Trojan Horse being drug up to the door of the legislature. I've forgetten where I first saw it but there's yet another horse around flying a "Religious Freedom" flag.
http://www.edmondsun.com/opinion/local_story_067125346.html
Unbelievable!
Posted by: MelM | March 11, 2008 6:22 PM
Back when I was in college, I worked nights in an institution for the mentally retarded. It was called the Austin State School and there was more than the retarded there. There were microcephalics, macrocephalics, there were things you don't want to hear about. There was an absolutely amazing variety of human beings there. They were locked away from the public eye.
I believe that the ID people should give us some kind of explanation for the sort of human "mistake" that nature (or God) has committed. These "mistakes" are so troubling to the families that they have no choice but to send them to an institution for the rest of their lives, however long.
If this world is intelligently designed, then it is obviously designed to constantly experiment with new adaptations. I think the system can do this without conscious design and daily oversight, but I retain the right to view it with awe and reverence. It is a mystery to me, and it has no name.
I say this with all respect to the troubled and often traumatized souls of the clients and their families.
Posted by: flywheelgrinding | March 11, 2008 6:23 PM
Depends what kind of snakes, I guess *yawn*
(was reminded of this just the other day when screening Raiders of the Lost Ark--my daughter's first time ever, my first time since 1981...that snakepit was full of lizards, mostly...see here for the full-on herpnerd info.)
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | March 11, 2008 6:23 PM
That's just... weird. What are such people doing in politics? Shouldn't they just clear off, and be replaced by people who... I don't know... like, people who can read and write and stuff ? And who can take actual political responsibilities ?
Posted by: Christophe Thill | March 11, 2008 6:26 PM
Gomers vote for Gomers. Unfortunately, this country has a plethora of Gomers because of our fucked up educational system.
Posted by: waldteufel | March 11, 2008 6:30 PM
The tardacity is reaching swampy levels down there.
Posted by: danley | March 11, 2008 6:32 PM
They'll have to, Raven, once my RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND FREE SPEECH BILL OF RIGHTS becomes law.
You see, there are over 19 major religions with over a million adherents each, demonstrating that any one belief about the nature and existence of god(s) is a theory in crisis! We can no longer allow our children to be indoctrinated and told what to believe when there are serious flaws in any belief system*. We must teach the controversy! If these people are so confident that they're right, then why are they so afraid of criticism?
*Okay, some of these are just looney-tunes. I mean, have you ever seen a half-man, half-god? What about a virgin giving birth? Puh-leeeze.
Posted by: Brownian, OM | March 11, 2008 6:36 PM
I suggest that our taxonomy allow for a new species of human to be known as
Homo rectocraniatus.
Posted by: Fentwin | March 11, 2008 6:37 PM
Homo rectocraniatus.
I have pictures of that species shot on Safari to Orange County a few years back:
http://home.earthlink.net/~tjneal/SPHINCRONYS2.jpg
Escaped, unfortunately.
Impossible to take down with a head shot.
Posted by: Ichthyic | March 11, 2008 6:42 PM
Gomers vote for Gomers. Unfortunately, this country has a plethora of Gomers because of our fucked up educational system.
catch 22.
Posted by: Ichthyic | March 11, 2008 6:44 PM
flywheelgrinding #54:
That's very interesting. I've done some volunteer work at a similar place outside of Boston. It was a sobering experience, to say the least. I really identify with where you're coming from, and with your compassion for the clients and their families. I saw afflictions I had not previously imagined and still recall with some distress, and cannot reconcile the undeniable existence of these people, these human beings, these so-called children of God, with the supposed existence of a benevolent and potent deity.
Let Ray Comfort play with his banana until the stars wink out. His nonsensical chittering explains nothing. He and his kind, they are blinder than blind.
Posted by: Kseniya | March 11, 2008 6:49 PM
"Ronda Storms is a notoriously horrible human being.
She was outraged when a library in the county had a display of books for gay pride week or month or whatever, and got the whole county board in an uproar to ban it."
Craig-- hear, hear! That was actually my sister who made the display and got caught up in the whirlwind when Storms started her crusade. But everything else she has ever done in politics has been consistent with that same spirit of small-minded vitriol.
Posted by: Diego | March 11, 2008 6:59 PM
``There are problems with evolution. Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half human?''
This guy wins the internet. It's going on Facebook.
Posted by: Geral | March 11, 2008 7:03 PM
itchtyic, here are some photos of a not rare species.
http://www.streetneeds.com/uploads/twinturbonet/ASSHOLES.jpg
Posted by: bernarda | March 11, 2008 7:31 PM
ya know, I've heard the argument that when viewing people from this angle, we all are essentially the same.
However, looking at that gallery, I actually see quite a few differences.
Posted by: Ichthyic | March 11, 2008 7:35 PM
So, what's going to happen when this passes and the first science teacher (read: gym teacher who drew the short straw) decides to use his newfound "academic freedom" to declare that the idea that white people are superior in intelligence to black people? Hey, he believes it, so it must be on par with all other ideas. They're both just theories, right? And that goes for the history teacher who decides to tell his class that the Holocaust never happened. Lots of people believe that too, so therefore it must have some merit, right?
If the bill singles out evolutionary theory alone, it will be get overturned with the sticker decision as precendent (why aren't physics textbooks getting stickers too?) And it if it doesn't, expect the scenario above.
Posted by: Kevin Dorner | March 11, 2008 7:57 PM
And I really should proofread before I post. :^p
Posted by: Kevin Dorner | March 11, 2008 7:59 PM
LOL! I need to adopt that to describe my own condition. :-D
Posted by: David Marjanović, OM | March 11, 2008 8:01 PM
"Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half human?"
Yes, they're called 'honkeys'. Many of them become politicians.
Racism is funny.
Oh, come on now. I'm a honkey. I live in the South, so I guess you can call me 'cracker' too if you like (many natives down here take that as a compliment, actually, due to its historical roots). I don't think it's offensive, and none of the white guys I know, even the good ol' boys, think either term is insulting. We're good with it.
Posted by: gsb | March 11, 2008 8:03 PM
Oh, come on now. I'm a honkey. I live in the South, so I guess you can call me 'cracker' too if you like
yeah, but are you a redneck?
http://www.fortogden.com/foredneck.html
Posted by: Ichthyic | March 11, 2008 8:06 PM
Posted by: Fernando Magyar | March 11, 2008 8:32 PM
It doesn't matter if you, as an African American, are comfortable referring to black people as "niggers" when you're with your friends. That's perfectly okay. But it's still a bad idea to go online and anonymously post that "niggers are half monkey, half human." It's in poor taste and is likely to offend somebody even if it doesn't offend you or your friends.
By the way, the suggestion that white people should be treated differently than people with other skin colors is the essence of racism.
Sorry for the off-topic rant.
Posted by: Jon Merz | March 11, 2008 8:38 PM
Yes, had allonym done that, it would indeed have been a very bad idea.
But considering just exactly who propagated the Big Lie you refer to in quotations, the role-reversal deployed in allonym's wordplay was quite witty.
Posted by: thalarctos | March 11, 2008 8:52 PM
"What about Pygmys and Dwarfs?"
No thanks. I just had a midget.
Posted by: Blondin | March 11, 2008 8:53 PM
Morons who use the terms monkey and ape interchangeably, or refer to chimps as monkeys, need to be told that they might as well call a horse a rhinoceros. Until they can get the terminology right, they have no standing to discuss biology.
Reminds me of a story about a customer service call that's too long for this post, but the punch line is the guy was fired for the very accurate observation that the customer was just too stupid to own a computer.
Posted by: BaldApe | March 11, 2008 8:54 PM
Reminds me of a story about a customer service call that's too long for this post,
Hai-yah!
http://www.snopes.com/humor/business/wordperfect.asp
Posted by: Ichthyic | March 11, 2008 8:58 PM
oh god i just loled all over the floor. better find some paper towels...
Posted by: Paul Johnson | March 11, 2008 9:00 PM
Reminds me of a story about a customer service call that's too long for this post,
Having done phone customer service work, I'm actually surprised at the number of people who are actually able to operate a phone. Talking to my fellow Americans convinced me that, for many, dialing the phone was their most advanced skill.
Posted by: MAJeff, OM | March 11, 2008 9:03 PM
for future reference, I think I'm going to start using phrases from this page:
Amazing Verbal Kung Fu
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pound/kungfu.html
whenever I utilize google-fu from now on.
er, I suppose I should have prefaced that itself with a
thundering rabbit dance
Posted by: Ichthyic | March 11, 2008 9:04 PM
Slightly off topic, the gomer in chief sings! Perhaps this should get it's own thread.
Posted by: Janine, ID | March 11, 2008 9:06 PM
Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half human?
Try looking in the mirror, Hays...
Posted by: Kimpatsu | March 11, 2008 9:07 PM
"Ah, but your thundering rabbit dance is no match for my invisible phoenix antagonism."
(I think I could get to like that web page)
Posted by: Michael X | March 11, 2008 9:11 PM
It's amazing that Disney World and Epcot are able to survive amongst all this filth in Florida.
Posted by: ChrisGose | March 11, 2008 9:12 PM
thalarctos:
The idea that white people somehow "propagate" anything is entirely racist.
Posted by: Jon Merz | March 11, 2008 9:12 PM
yeah, whatever, Jon.
Posted by: thalarctos | March 11, 2008 9:14 PM
Slightly off topic, the gomer in chief sings! Perhaps this should get it's own thread.
that guy is one, sick, stupid fuck.
Why doesn't it surprise me they laugh while Rome burns?
Posted by: Ichthyic | March 11, 2008 9:19 PM
Seeing the antics of creationists depresses me. I just finished reading Robert Heinlien's newest novel (I know what you're thinking, R.A.H. died in '88, how can he have a new novel? It is a book he started back in '55, but never finished. Spider Robinson had the honor to finish it for the Master.)
If you get a chance, pick it up, it's called "Variable Star". In the book Robinson and Heinlien manage to formulate a plausible series of events, starting with 9-11 (and the US' ham-fisted response) and the Prophet, Scudder. Seeing the creationists, I can see where Spider has puthis finger on the pulse - - and it's terrifying. (It's also a very good book in it's own right, IMHO).
Posted by: Sergeant Zim | March 11, 2008 9:25 PM
It's amazing that Disney World and Epcot are able to survive amongst all this filth in Florida."
I don't see that as at all surprising. Disney is about replacing actual culture with bland megacorporate mass consumerism. That's what I hated about Florida and why I recently moved out.
Unlike other places dripping with art, architecture, culture, and history, Florida is pretty much just conservatism in every sense of the word. Bible-thumpers driving their SUVs around to the various strip malls. Nothing but Walmarts and Targets and Home Depots and TGI Ruby Applebacks as far as the eye can see.
Everything is bland corporate homogenization. Restaurants, "neighborhood bars," everything is mass produced chains.
Outback Steakhouse, Bonefish Grill, and that same corporatons's several other chains, Hooters, all are from there. The area has embraced all the worst of American culture and rejected all of the best.
It all goes hand in hand.
Posted by: Craig | March 11, 2008 9:44 PM
(Uh, speaking of elections and elected officials and fighting stupidity...)
PZ, were you planning to highlight the drive to get support for the Markey letter (which is asking for a 6.5% increase in the NIH budget for the next fiscal year)? It was drafted by my congressperson, and I wrote him an effusive email thanking him for thinking about science, and giving a short overview of my research, which an NIH increase would fund.
The Society for Neuroscience has a nice contact-your-elected-officials interface here. I think it would be neat if everybody who's a scientist wrote their rep with a short snippet about his or her current work. We should show our representatives that we're not Big Science -- we're lots of little stories about different pieces of science making up a grand, world-changing enterprise.
Posted by: Mollie | March 11, 2008 9:46 PM
The area has embraced all the worst of American culture and rejected all of the best.
a rather disturbing trend that doesn't just limit itself to FLA, unfortunately.
Are we looking at a glimpse of the future?
It's like watching Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" with zombies milling about in the shopping malls.
just substitute WalMart for the shopping malls, I suppose.
Posted by: Ichthyic | March 11, 2008 9:52 PM
Posted by: allonym | March 11, 2008 9:54 PM
Ichthyic,
Thanks for the visual. A field guide of sorts. :)
Posted by: Fentwin | March 11, 2008 10:00 PM
Dumb Question:
The use of "Gomer". It is indeed a cool word, and I see that the word itself has garnered a few comments. My question is, is PZed using "Gomer" in the sense of "Gomer Pyle", or is this "Gomer" in the sense of the medical slang (Get Out of My Emergency Room), for someone who is beyond help?
Both work, and it is purely a question out of curiosity. PZed?
Posted by: Anon | March 11, 2008 10:14 PM
The area has embraced all the worst of American culture and rejected all of the best.
Consumer capitalism: commodify it; kill it; sell it.
Posted by: MAJeff, OM | March 11, 2008 10:16 PM
"Have you ever seen a half-monkey, half human?"
Wait, if that's not true, then do I have to stop flinging poop at people? Because that's my reason for living. Well, that and peeing on things.
Posted by: John C. Welch | March 11, 2008 10:22 PM
Consumer capitalism: commodify it; kill it; sell it.
I think that needs some updating:
commodify it, speculate on it, disintegrate it, commodify the rema