I think it was the legendary showman P.T. Barnum who once observed, “The average American is too stupid to do anything more than sit there and stare at these here clowns.” Whether Barnum uttered those exact words or a bunch of other words, I believe he meant it. And now, here in a future Barnum would have claimed as his own invention, many no longer need actual clowns and will happily settle for a few cans of Red Bull and a torn sock puppet.
Unless I’m as witless as the alarmingly high percentage of my fellow countrymen who can’t read this, I see the collective decline of our national smarts as trending further downward from drooling idiocy toward gibbering madness. There are people who truly believe Noah drowned all the ape men and tossed the dinosaurs into lava pits, like the rain was their fault or something.
Perhaps the time has come for those of us who remove our hats before eating dinner to put aside tolerance in favor of what I like to call The New Hatred. Why continue that whole charade of attempting to establish a “meaningful dialogue” with a flailing army of toxic fools who would, if they had their way, order their perfect tiny government to put you in a really large and hellish camp? Admit it, they make life less tolerable and you hate them for that, right?
Or we can arrange for them to borrow lots more on their homes and credit cards…for a while.
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Gee, consider the State of South Dakota. Okay that’s enough consideration. I live here. The nation is gradually sliding into the pit with South Dakota. It’s a deep pit. I’ve been trying to crawl out with the other four-footed fish for years. At least I can crawl. Most of the rest of the worm-like South Dakotans can’t even do that. De-evolution has it’s foundations….the stone that was chipped off Mt. Rushmore and lays in a heap at the base of four carved human heads hanging in mid-air like some exploded shrunken heads that didn’t know enough to fall into pieces at the sound of dynamite. They just kept expanding. Then, they hardened into the likenesses of former Presidents. Shameful. So there’s that stone laying useless at the base of the mountain….the foundations of a new American society. Useless stone. So too have the minds of South Dakotans turned to useless stone. There may have been smart people here once. I think it was last summer during tourist season. Yes, it takes foreigners to raise the level of intellgence. Some of them are even bipedal…the envy of South Dakotans in every corner of the state. Oh wait, I see light