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No, I mean really: "I've often wondered how Christianists and the Tea Party crowd can cling to beliefs that defy logic and scientific fact. Now, we may have the answer: they're simply stupid. I mean literally dumb from an intelligence perspective. A new study done by researcher Gordon Hodson , a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, finds that those with low intelligence gravitate towards conservatism and are prone to embrace prejudice of things they don't understand or that are different." I suggest that you entertain yourselves with the above post and the Yahoo article that prompted it, which starts as follows: "There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy." While searching around for more about this study , I also found the following gem of information, from Live Science: "...people who believ...

Of the people that we turn our future over to...Here's a great article (via Atrios) about Alan Greenspan, who was allowed to run our economy for years, with predictable results, at least to anyone who really cared enough to open their eyes: " Alan Greenspan Insists That He Knows Nothing About the Economy That's what the Dow Jones effectively told readers today. The article reported that in response to a question at a conference: "Greenspan also said he believes that the sharp rise in gold prices is due to market concerns about inflation taking off in the long run. He noted how there has never been such a major expansion of credit in U.S. economic history." Well, actually credit expanded more rapidly than the 4.2 percent rate in 2010 in every single year that Greenspan chaired the Fed. In fact, it expanded more rapidly in every year in this series (going back to 1976) and probably every year since the Great Depression." Well, is Greenspan an ignoran...

This news just in: "A biography of Sarah Palin written for 9- to 12- year olds is slated to hit shelves this September, the AP reports." Well, at last, a book that we can actually believe was written by Sarah herself.

And this vital story, from Talking Points Memo, about Daniel Pipes, one of of the classic ignorant, stupid neocons who brought you our great adventure in Iraq: "Pipes: Obama Must Bomb Iran To Save His Presidency" Because all the innocent lives that would be wiped out mean nothing compared to a president's ego. That kind of thinking worked for Bush, right? I mean, attacking Iraq saved his presidency- so he could go on for seven more years of incompetence and criminality. This maundering idiot continues: "He needs a dramatic gesture to change the public perception of him as a light-weight, bumbling ideologue..." You're right there. The dramatic gesture he needs is for Republicans like you to stop spending tens of millions of dollars spreading lies to convince people that he is a "light-weight, bumbling ideologue," in comparison to your president, who was exactly that, and ignorant, vicious and corrupt in the process. "According to Pipes, a...

Sean Hannity, on Fox News, with this brilliant comment: Hannity: "You know, Jennifer, it makes me mad, because Obama had zero qualifications -- he was a state senator, he didn't even serve a full term in the U.S. Senate, he'd never had executive experience. He never got asked tough questions about his radical friends and associates ...." You know what, Sean? He never got asked tough questions, but he got asked a hell of a lot of stupid questions. What do you say, maybe one tough question equals ten stupid questions? On that basis, you all by yourself could beat the whole "liberal media." Now, get back into your teapot and go back to sleep, please.

Peggy Noonan is really stupid.