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blamebrampton ([personal profile] blamebrampton) wrote2009-09-03 08:55 am

Oh American darlings …

I do feel for you. I have met so many smart, serious and intellectually curious citizens of the United States, and yet your political climate is so filled with people just like this one:



Suddenly the abject lunacy that surrounds health and science debates in your country has a whole new layer of horror attached. And thanks to Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content for the URL.

I'm off to see whether having a sore knee is a good enough excuse for wagging work now that hideous deadline has passed. A few laps of the hall ought to settle my conscience one way or the other.

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2009-09-03 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
YES! You're exactly right. And OH GOD! The Chaser team were very naughty boys with CNNNN. To be fair to the people interviewed, most of them just seemed to have gone to bad schools and probably watch bad TV media (which is SO bad in he US that I have been banned from watching it by my friends as I throw things at their televisions. Except for PBS, which is mostly good). That Mason hater, on the other hand ...