Neither horseshoes nor handgrenades

This is increasingly becoming a country where reason doesn't rule. Just look on popular polls of who people would vote into the MLB hall of fame. They seem to have no correlation with any actual performance numbers, just popularity - even though the guidelines for induction explicitly warn against that. Look at the average American's knowledge of world geography, of history, of physics, of almost anything factual in the world and not based on television sitcoms or popular music. The people throwing the most weight around vote-wise and as consumers are almost completely ignorant and devoid of reasoning skills. For every diligent citizen who does her research, who reads and learns about what the world is really like and how it operates, and then who casts her vote intelligently and reasonably based on that knowledge... there are ten people who think we should invade France after Iraq, that the sun is a planet, that the Bible reports true history, and that Barry Bonds should not be in the Hall of Fame but that Mark McGwire should. It's so enormously frustrating to live here and to know this and to never possibly be able to change it. I don't think it's exaggerating to say the world is abosultely teeming with complely vacuous, utterly moronic idiots who have no clue in their tiny pea-brained heads about anything at all. Thanks for reading.