Oh man — I’ve never seen such beautiful use of the word fuck in a long time. Apologies to those who are offended, but the article, despite it’s over the top language, actually does have a couple good points. But mostly, it’ll make any of you liberals feeling down in the gutter feel just a little better.
I suppose it’s a guilty pleasure.
Though — if anyone wants to argue the points (re-stated below), please feel free to do so:
- Blue states have the lowest divorce rate; Red states have the highest.
- Blue states pay for more federal taxes per capita than Red states do; Red states gain from those taxes per capita than Blue states do.
- Red states have the highest murder rates.
Sorry for the generalizations, but they were too good to pass up. If you don’t like it, you can either ignore it or come up with some good counter arguments. But don’t bother to flame, it’s not welcome.
on Nov 11th, 2004 at 1:12 pm
(To be fair, I’m sure there is equally similar hate literature against all Christians and the “right wing nut jobs” — I don’t associate myself with those either)
would this be the type of hate literature that you don’t associate yourself with?
on Nov 12th, 2004 at 2:46 pm
Blue [states] .. Red [states] …
Irrelevant and meaningless comparison. If you want to do a comparison, compare the blue COUNTIES (or are those voting districts? Or are the 2 synonomous?) vs. the red COUNTIES.
Higher murder rate in podunk kansas than NY, Chicago, LA, or Atlanta? Sorry, not buyin’ it.
on Nov 12th, 2004 at 3:15 pm
Brian,
Point taken. Though I would argue that telling all Muslims to “go fuck yourself” is a bit more intense than a tongue-in-cheek article that includes the sentence “this train is fucking over”. Still, point taken.
Michael,
Of course the counties are important, and I’d be curious to hear about that. But it is the states that determine the federal elections, and so comparing counties in light of the ‘04 election doesn’t really matter.
Obviously high density cities, which are always Democratic, will top the list in divorce rates and murder rates, I’m sure.
Overall, I didn’t mean for this link to be a serious debate. Though there is a great opinion article (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/arts/14rich.html?oref=login&oref=login&incamp=article_popular_1) in the New York Times discussing how big money has been pandering to the “anti-moral values”, while still convincing those “moral values” folks that they are on their side. It’s a good read.
on Nov 12th, 2004 at 4:27 pm
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