It's Context, Doofus!

It's election season again. I can tell because I'm wearing out the MUTE button on my television remote so I don't have to listen to three or four political commercials every nine minutes. I'm pretty certain that if I listened to them, though, I'd hear (or see) some word or phrase taken out of context in almost every one of them. Friggin' negative advertisements...

Another Trump voter heard from

The following is copied in its entirety from the Indianapolis Star "Letters to the editor" section today (20 July 2018).

Russian meddling in elections? How is that even possible?

All the folks who are saying that Russians interfered with our election I ask, how? They do not vote in our elections. Does Russia rule that many people in the United States? Wise up and use your own brain. President Barack Obama nearly destroyed this country.

Also, any immigrant could enter this country illegally, and those who chose to enter illegally should leave.

Bob Glaspie
Oxford

Hey, stoopid: climate and weather aren't the same thing!

global temperatures

I ran across this on Facebook not long ago (once more, I'm absolutely flabbergasted at how ignorant some people are). The names have been converted to random initials to protect the guilty...

AB: Yes it's definitely been crazy this year. 60's today but snow tomorrow here in Colorado but so much for global warming huh lol.