Is it sorta like coherent ramblings?

Sometimes people say and do things that seem stupid on the surface. “Half this game is 90% mental” is a Yogi Berra quote that is funny but NOT stupid. It’s simply a confusing way of saying that the game is 45% mental. At other times, people say and do things that ARE stupid—on the surface or otherwise. But, we won’t even go there.

And, sometimes people are simply out-and-out lying zealots. They say and do things designed to prove some ideological point. They’re mindless ideologues for whom the ends always justify the means. They justify the harm from their stupidity as “necessary” collateral losses.

There is no shortage of examples in any of the above categories. Some of the stuff in the first category is sidesplitting comical. Most of the stuff in the second category is too stupid to mention. But, some of the third category stuff is downright gut wrenching cruel and we need to mention it simply because it devastates innocent lives and at times borders on the criminal.

I’m going to give a couple of examples here. One deals with racism (3rd category above) and the other deals with a Lefty favorite: pick on Sarah Palin (1st category above). I’m not going into any detail because many of you watch cable TV news, surf the Internet, and listen to talk radio like the rest of us do.

As well, some of you are Conservatives; some of you are Liberals, neither of which renders anyone stupid. But I think most of you are like me: wobblers around the middle, which I think is the more effective position.

The latest from the world of racism…

By now most of you, if you’ve been conscious over the past week, have heard about Shirley Sherrod (black) and the way Andrew Breitbart (white) victimized her by posting a doctored video on You...

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... of mock-Bushisms, the most famous of which was Will Farrell’s of SNL fame: “strategery.”

Sarah issues these things unapologetically and with a casual flare. It does not matter to her that they’re not REAL words because she has no idea that they are NOT real words. And besides, I’ll bet anything that some of them will BECOME real words simply because she’s used them.

In fact, for me the only thing more entertaining than her dropping these random word-bombs is watching the grammar-gods blow head gaskets over mostly nothing, like an occasional sentence ending with a preposition or splitting an infinitive for editorial flash (“to BOLDLY go where…”). You go, girl, but, at least for now and the near future, don’t tally me as a political “yes” vote.

Joe Walther is a freelance writer and publisher of The True Facts. You may comment on his column by clicking here.