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Every Once in Awhile, Their True Nature Pops Out. 

Sullivan must be rubbng off on Bainbridge. [1]Speaking of primary polls run in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Iowa:

What’s considered a solid hour’s reading in Iowa? The back of a cereal box.

New Hampshire? Smaller than Iowa. Whiter than Iowa. And, as Alexander Theroux once observed, ” is literally shaped like a dunce cap.”

South Carolina? The birthplace of secession?

How is it that we persist in allowing these unrepresentative, yahoo infested, pissant states decide who gets to run for President? The notion that the Ames straw poll matters would be preposterous were it not so pernicious.

That’s OK, Stephen… they don’t like you much, either.

There are a number of possible reasons for this.  Perhaps it has something to do with California not being able to provide for itself in terms of electricity… or any other kind of energy for that matter…. you end up having to ship it all in… usually at everyone else’s expense. Yet we’re supposed to take your word for what should and shouldn’t go on the grid, and your criticisms about how those of us in flyover country are wasting energy.
Perhaps it has something to do with California’s taking far more than its 12% of the US population justifies in terms of Federal taxes, which everyone else in the country ends up paying for.

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Perhaps it’s because California, is busy telling everybody else how to drive, how much they should be paying for fuel, and how big their automobiles ought to be, and so on, when they still haven’t figured out how to deal with their own traffic system yet, and who is pretty much the most polluted state the country.  (Ever see LA skies, Steven? Neither have I, though the smog cleared enough once where I almost did, while stuck in traffic on the 405…) Yeah, sure, we’ll take your advice on this kind of thing, absent a law.

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And I’ll bet, smart as you are, you haven’t thought of a damn one of these.  When you get your head out of your backside about how you have to deal with the “little people”, perhaps someone will take you a little more seriously.

Until that time… That you figure someone from outside LaLa land should take you seriously,would be preposterous were it not so pernicious. To coin a phrase.

Others: Mellow Drama [2] Iowa voice [3], Lileks [4]