Time to cut the ties

I'm divorcing myself from a forum I frequent. It's been overrun by people whose political ideas come out something like this:


McCain is a cooler customer under pressure. I've seen Obama get mad and point fingers at old women in Iowa when they said something he didn't like. His style of dealing with confrontation is a very polished version of south side Chicago chest thumping. It's VERY polished, but it's still what it is.

I spent the last couple years in South Central LA, and it changed me. There's no way you can spend that much time in the ghetto and not have it rub off on you.

You know what Russia's reaction to some south sider bullshit? They're going to laugh right in his face, and he's going to lose his cool. We just cannot face that possibility. He has to be able to handle the pressure of international relationships. I don't think he's got it.


South side Chicago chest thumping?

McCain, the most legendary temper in Washington, is a "cooler customer"?

Somewhere, David Duke has a perma-boner.

You spent a couple years in south central, so now it's okay to discuss Barack Obama like he's a particularly well-groomed breed of show dog. He's very polished, but they show their teeth sometimes. It's just what they do.

I'm not trying to be melodramatic, but it's hard to function in a world where people are this fucking ignorant. It makes me want to go find a hundred acres in the middle of a national forest and go build a shack and learn to eat grubs and bark.

I'm tired of having to give such obvious shitheads equal time. That makes me an elitist -- me, not the candidate I support, before you get too excited -- and I don't care. It's reprehensible to dismiss someone due to their age, gender, race, or circumstances of their birth. But it just as reprehensible to have been born into every advantage, at the best time in history, and to then squander all that intellectual capital on willful stupidity.

All I can do, to maintain some level of sanity, is to surround myself with smart and creative people, to use my time in the pursuit of truth and love, and to take care of business. At some stage, an entertaining time-suck becomes a toxic waste dump that actually makes you dumber. That forum goes on the scrap heap, unfortunately, because it's at the point where it's got all the mental nutritional value of watching Project Runway while being diddled by Sean Hannity in a bathtub full of pork rinds.

I'm gonna go read a book, play with the baby, write video games, do some work, take a walk, paint a room, sex the wife, watch a movie, cook a meal. I'm gonna do my best to stay out of the slime pit, because it's depressing to watch people shit themselves and think it's awesome.