Finer shades of idiocy

So much outrage to choose from today. It's hard to post anything that doesn't seem trivial in light of the everyday horrors of living in a stupid, corrupt, greedy world run by the very worst of us. Newshoggers has a piece you'd think would be headlined everywhere, but isn't. A US contractor civilian employee, gang raped in Iraq and held prisoner lest she seek help. World Gone Mad shocks me with a story about 9 Australian men given probation or suspended sentences for gang raping a ten year old girl.

It's a cesspool out there, but of course these stories have attracted the usual insects that swarm around tragedy and injustice and tell us that the bitches deserved it or wanted it and often succeed in drowning out the cries of victims with the chant of liberalibaraliberaliberal.

Here's a more entertaining one though, although it attracts the same Republican flies as the others. James Watson, one of the two fellows credited with discovering the double helical structure of DNA recently got himself into trouble with comments about how people of African descent just aren't intellectually equal to "us." ABC reveals that Watson's DNA, on line for all to see shows some recent African ancestry himself. No wonder he's been maintaining that dark skin endows one with sexual prowess. I wonder if he can jump.

Of course the comments are slime-soaked and full of people who believe that blacks and whites and all the rest evolved from separate pre-human ancestors or that Africans are the "missing link" between humans and Neanderthals, but that only points out the humor of people with a theoretical 5 point IQ advantage feeling superior. It's all about the finer shades of idiocy.