Open Thread

“Jimmy Haggard” = composite of Jimmy Swaggart (straight hooker scandal) and Ted Haggard (gay hooker scandal).

IJ- compartmentalization is the bain of humanity.

“ignorant populace

i cant stand when a phrase like that is thrown around so lightly. so i assume you are part of some uber intellectual populace or something?!”

I’m not throwing it around lightly at all. But the attack on the Muslim cab driver is eerily reminiscent of the attacks shortly after 9/11 on several turbaned men in different parts of the country. Ignorant people using violence to express their anger over the horrific 9/11 attacks lashed out at innocent people WHO WEREN’T EVEN MUSLIMS — THEY WERE SIKHS! But they thought a guy in a turban must be a Muslim. Sorry, but that’s ignorance, plain and simple.

And there are so many examples of this kind of ignorance in our country. For example, we’ve all seen the statistics about American students who can’t identify major countries on a map. In fact, a survey that got a lot of press in 2006 found that the majority of those surveyed couldn’t find Iraq on a map, half couldn’t even find New York State on a map, and 3 in 10 thought the population of the U.S. was between one and two billion.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/pf/35983806.html

I don’t have to purport to be part of some kind of uber intellectual elite to call that ignorance.

“Jimmy Haggard, anyone?”

Mark Souder explains:

“I prayed multiple times a day, sang hymns with emotion and tears, felt each time that it wouldn’t happen again, read the Bible every morning,” Souder said in one of more than a dozen e-mails to WORLD’s editors. “So how in the world did I have a ‘torrid’ (which is an accurate word) many-year affair? How could I compartmentalize it so much?”

“i dont know. im not straight or anything, but id imagine that pussy trumps god every single time.”

Oh come on, let’s please not talk about cats again!