"You Can't Fix Stupid" Phooa

So here's the scene: early evening a man finds an abandoned box located at the end of his driveway. No one was on the street, save some passing cars with drivers looking questioningly at the suspicious package at the end of the drive. Like the man, they too know that this package, this mysterious container of unknown contents, is indeed out of place. Instictively the man peers at the package and suddenly without warning his instincts kick in, and flushes all common sense out of his mind. He instantly recalls the terror-level indicator for the day just before a terrible realization hits, "this could be terrorists, terrorists come to destroy Fyffe, AL! I've got to do somthing." And something he did, he called the local authorities in to investigate, and I'm sure poke the box with a stick. The thing missing from this story and apparently his conciousness was that just hours before some electricians were there working on the utilities, with tools, and connectors commonly found in a toolbox, which they just happened to drive off and leave at the scene of the crime. To make a long stupid story short and stupid, the package on the end of the driveway, strangely resembled a toolbox. Really people, when confronted with situations, let's add up all of the factors divide by two and handle accordingly. I really doubt that terrorists are going to go after Fyffe, AL, something tells me they've got a few bigger fish to fry right now.

So I just watched, as you can see my the title, Ron White's "you can't fix stupid." Now I've always admired stand up comics. One reason is because it's H-A-R-D to come up with material that's both fresh AND funny. Just because people tend to want to laugh, doesn't mean that they will. In fact, I think one of the hardest things to do in the world is to make someone laugh. Second, they speak a lot of truth when they're doing their social commentary. They make it funny, and comical, blazingly insightful, and cuttingly truthful. And Ron put into a concise billboard what I've been trying to say since I realized just how many stupid people are sucking wind, "you can't fix stupid." It's true, stupid will prevail every time simply because it is stupid. Stupid is one of the only circular arguments that works every time! You can't argue with stupid, you can't reason with stupid, you can't debate with stupid, therefore stupid wins and stays stupid. Parents today, at least the loudest minority, are a prime example of, "next time you have a thought, let it go."

Case in point, in another local story parents are upset that four judges used objective criteria to select the high school cheerleading squad. Turns out that when, in competition, the best are singled out for their talents, a true refection of the diversity isn't always accomplished. Were not only talking racially, we're also talking about the junior high school from which the girls came. Parents, this is crazy! Could it be that these ten girls from the same school were the best from the group? Could it be that there were girls trying out that suck at being cheerleaders? Could life not be fair? All this and more coming of the next episode of, "Common Sense and Get a Life," the best scripted-reality-zit since "Survivor-- The Sun." I don't know about you, but I think this one is a prime candidate to be deferred to the Dept. of Homeland Security, they've probably been talking already . <zinger> I just don't know if we common people can handle day-to-day affairs without help anymore. I mean that with more truth than I'm comfortable admitting. It seems we, as a society need to take a dose of common sense and read an ode to reason, before thing really get out of hand.