Mentalechoes

I’m not a political commentator by any stretch of any imagination, and my blog wouldn’t contain more than a single handful of current affairs posts in its entirety, but having spent the last couple of days watching the US presidential debates on youtube.com, and watching clips of Sarah Palin, I just feel compelled to say something.

Sarah Palin is stupid! I don’t just mean a bit slow, I mean the woman is a fucking idiot! She is an illiterate parrot who has no known political skill outside of being a pretty face. Heaven help the US if she ever gets the top job in the country. Matt Damon pretty much sums up my position, after my last couple of days looking at news reports about her. Now if you think I am being overly harsh, this next clip from a respected CNN political current affairs show presents Sarah Palin with her own mouth. If it reminds of you that utterly stupid beauty contestant Miss South Carolina, that’s probably because they share the same brain.

It does make you wonder though, why the country that has such institutions as Caltech, MIT, Harvard and Yale, puts in its most important and prominent political positions the dumbest and least competant people genetics can produce. I honestly don’t know but it does give some credence to the old saying that we oft quote in the software world.

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -Rich Cook

Looks like this law is universal.

Andy!