Also doesn’t excuse denying a whole scientific community that says “Move your ass or your species is going to get flushed out by the laws of nature.”

We’ve got to turn this anti-intellectual movement around or the US is going to continue to collapse into a second rate country. I am so hoping that the Occupy movement is the beginning of a new era in which we start making smart decisions and abandon the foolishness that holds the belief that Joe the Plumber has more wisdom than those who have demonstrated their intelligence.

That we would be looking at a second (even third) rate person like Rick Perry or any of the other Republican candidates for president is terrible. Having a different philosophy about the role of government is acceptable. But it does not excuse the attempt to put a dolt into the White House.