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The Seattle P-I columnist who this week attributed the pro-Bush majority in America to mass stupidity wasn't the first from the Blue State Left to dismiss the non-progressive multitudes as moronic.
Here, from November, is an ad hominem rant against conservatives by a lefty blogger (and defender of tolerance, natch) who not only epitomizes the tendency but actually enlists the Plan 9 Martian for the argument.
Alien nation, indeed. Will the Democrats come to be controlled by their Dudley Manlove wing? Is Howard Dean the Dudley Manlove candidate?
UPDATE: Irish Eagle heads off in search of Neal Starkman, author of esteem-boosting, character-affirming, learning-community-building curricula (who apparently thinks most people are stupid).
Further investigation finds a PhD (testimonial to membership in the precincts of the learned) held by a Neal Starkman in Social Psychology from the University of Connecticut.
But of particular interest here is the resemblance between Neal Starkman's cautionary anti-drinking tale for undergraduates The Apple and the WC Fields classicThe Fatal Glass of Beer.
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