Here's some advice, free, from me to you: don't move to Florida. And if you are unfortunate enough to already live here (like yours truly), may I suggest you make immediate plans to become one of the thousands vacating the state like rats on the proverbial sinking ship. Our not-so-fine state is in the midst of bracing for massive budget cuts - where I work we're staring down the second wave of "reductions" (four percent earlier this year, and now at least another eleven percent after the beginning of the new budget period), and layoffs and other "cost saving measures" have begun. I have no idea what department I will even be a part of in three months. Or if I'll have a job at all. So imagine my disgust when I learn that our state Senate is using their valuable time legislating Truck Nutz (you know - the fake scrotes that rednecks hang from the trailer hitches of their trucks). What a waste of time - for the senators and the cops who would be called upon to attempt to enforce this garbage. Personally, I think the brass balls are stupid, but I'm hardly offended. It just makes it that much easier to spot the mouth breathers and avoid them. What's worse is that prior to the local evening news report about this, the anchor gave a disclaimer that the story included images that others might find "offensive". {sarcasm on} Oh, I'm all aflutter with righteous indignity at being subjected to images of fake testes hanging from undercarriage! I'm calling my Congressman and demanding action! {/sarcasm off} Of course, this is also a state Senate that finally just got around to attempting to make beastiality illegal (warning: the linked story really does include some lurid and disturbing details about an unfortunate dog with the tragically ironic name of Lucky - read at your own risk) - although this bit of legislation hasn't been passed by the House quite yet - and is allowing teachers to discuss Intelligent Design in their classrooms if they don't favor the *scientific* theory of evolution. We're ranked 21st in the nation in terms of education, but I think the DOE stacks the deck.
We're becoming idiots, collectively, by degrees.
4 comments:
are 'we' the common collective yes? are 'we' teh individual, no.
watch your grouping! I actually AM offended by those balls. but legislation? not quite. I prefer personal cold calls to the sonsabitches that have em. I have a little sumpen for em. called a yank and a fist in their face. for being arrogant bastages.
hey look! I used an idle neatness word, bastage! you're the only one I know who manages to use that so often.
"We" meaning the majority of Floridians, who are also in the collective "we" of the majority of Americans. The continued dumbing down of the nation's conciousness just depresses me. You and me - we fall in the classification of people who are forced to watch all this take place as we shake our heads in wonder.
The Legislature has been in the news a lot. Jerks - the whole lot of 'em, wasting time and money on things like Truck Nutz and urinal etiquette as the state economy flounders and our kids fall further behind in their educations so the only thing they're prepared for is a career in the hospitality industry, which is okay with lawmakers, because it's the bread and butter of the state...
my Mom wants to sue for all the girly mudflaps on trucks that have been around since the 70s and how they haven't had any legislation put agaisnt them. I'm all for it.
What about the pissing Calvin decals, too?
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