Now I Understand

Herman Cain, whose intellectual negligibility is as boundless as he ego, was fine corporate whatchamacallit; however, as has become abundantly clear  he knows next to nothing about everything other than making a buck. I was, consequently, shocked to find that he

joined the board of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank and became its chairman in 1995 and 1996—the most impressive item on his résumé.

I really do think that this fact explains the idiocy of creating an economic system in which failure is rewarded and hard work punished. A bunch of dunderheads took over the government and gave their dunderheaded pals a bunch of money so that they could all enjoy the dunderhead christmas.

This Is Not Rational

When I was a Boy Scout, one of my fellows was a nearly perfect example of the current crop of maniacs who called themselves conservatives.  Unable to make a coherent argument, he would mocked, misunderstood, and misrepresented whatever it was he didn't like. In one instance, one recall fairly vividly, he was trying to make fun of automotive recall efforts and ended up making vroom vroom noises and saying something like I sure the engines can't fall out of Corvairs. It was so bizarre, now his doppelganger is running for president:



So apparently we don't have to save those job and we don't have to rehire teachers because kids should show up to school and find no teachers there.