The New York Times reported last week that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota introduced a bill last week to roll back efficiency standards for light bulbs, which include a phasing out of incandescent light bulbs in favor of more energy efficient bulbs. She stated that the government has no right to dictate the kinds of light-bulbs people chose to use.even if the bulbs consume too much energy. By logical extension, one must assume that Bachmman is also opposed to government regulation of the food and drug industries since government has no business protecting consumers from contaminated food or ingesting adulterated drugs.
In a somewhat similar vein,The Boston Globe reported yesterday that Michele Bachmann, while on a potential presidential campaign visit to New Hampshire over the weekend, on two separate occasions before Republican legislators and Tea-Party supporters, congratulated the state for being the place she said, "where the shot heard 'round the world" started the Revolutionary War. She did not give credit to Emerson and she apparently confused the capital of New Hampshire - Concord - with the towns of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. It was in those towns, on April 19, 1775, that the first skirmishes against the British were fought.
Nevertheless, Congresswoman Bachmann should be complimented: she was with fifty miles of the right place in an adjacent state. Besides, she has little time for accuracy when she has an entire Constitution to defend against the onslaughts of pointy-headed intellectual-liberal-leftist-socialist-secularist-Jesus-hating-inerrant bible-doubting -atheist-America-hating-fact-checking-latte-drinking- evolution-supporting-global-warming believers who still read daily newspapers.
Two questions now require immediate answers. Is Ms. Bachmann now an exemplar of the kind of barely literate, utterly uninformed person whom a number of Americans believe is a qualified to serve in Congress and to run for the Presidency? Have the voters of the 6th District in Minnesota taken leave of their senses?
It was Erasmus who observed that, "In the and of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Gender equality requires that we chastise Erasmus for having failed to remind us that stupidity is not sex-specific.
In a somewhat similar vein,The Boston Globe reported yesterday that Michele Bachmann, while on a potential presidential campaign visit to New Hampshire over the weekend, on two separate occasions before Republican legislators and Tea-Party supporters, congratulated the state for being the place she said, "where the shot heard 'round the world" started the Revolutionary War. She did not give credit to Emerson and she apparently confused the capital of New Hampshire - Concord - with the towns of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. It was in those towns, on April 19, 1775, that the first skirmishes against the British were fought.
Nevertheless, Congresswoman Bachmann should be complimented: she was with fifty miles of the right place in an adjacent state. Besides, she has little time for accuracy when she has an entire Constitution to defend against the onslaughts of pointy-headed intellectual-liberal-leftist-socialist-secularist-Jesus-hating-inerrant bible-doubting -atheist-America-hating-fact-checking-latte-drinking- evolution-supporting-global-warming believers who still read daily newspapers.
Two questions now require immediate answers. Is Ms. Bachmann now an exemplar of the kind of barely literate, utterly uninformed person whom a number of Americans believe is a qualified to serve in Congress and to run for the Presidency? Have the voters of the 6th District in Minnesota taken leave of their senses?
It was Erasmus who observed that, "In the and of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Gender equality requires that we chastise Erasmus for having failed to remind us that stupidity is not sex-specific.