"The Web" isn't making America stupid --- "Stupidity" is making everyone stupid.

That is ... people have lost the capacity .. the ability .. to process information intelligently; the Age of Intellectualism having seemed to have croaked long ago. That was an Era (in science, philosophy & politics) when information, ideas, prejudices, and so on went through a lifetime of testing one's preconceived prejudices. No more. The cowardly Right listens to their Own Kind as the cowardly Left listens soley to their Own Kind. Critical Thinking as an Art is dead.

When strife pops up in say Pakistan or the Middle East, the Freethinker ought to zap themselves into newspapersDOTcom and read both the Jerusalem Post alongside any of the Islamic jounals provided.

Alongside his hometown paper he or she ought to subscribe to BOTH weeklies 'LIBERAL OPINION WEEKLY' and 'THE CONSERVATIVE CHRONICLE" to guage intelligently all opinions in the debate. To rely SOLEY on leftwing or rightwing media outlets (e.g. "The Factor", "Democracy Now").

Otherwise the Thinker has relegated his or her ability to understand Anything --- suddenly finding themselves to be at the very same level of Thinking that pollutes the Mindset of the KKK or Jihadists. (yeah, yeah ... its the other guy who's wrong)

And loosen-up all Ye Dimthinkers --- don't get so agitated about the Rosie O'Donnels & Ann Coulters of the airwaves --- the webways --

Their day-jobs are to Poke Needles into the Eyes of America's Dullards. If your Eye is poked by either one, then you Absolutely Deserved to be Poked.

They're "Entertainers" !! Showmen on the Political Stage --- admission free.

The Paranoids who desire to muzzle Rosie are Mirror Images of the same Cretins who wish to muzzle Coulter.

Lookie here .. it ain't like Females have much of a Choice of being at whatever Receiving End they might be at any given moment of the day.

After 50,000+ years of Genetic Engineering there is NOTHING that can be done to alter Mother Nature.

One can hardly give a Flame whether we are speaking of Women who lived 800 years ago in an Incan village, Eskimo teenybop girlies, or the Dixie Chicks.

Now, now, it doesn't mean that the Chicks can't compete in climbing Everest or pole vaulting or whateverhaveyou --- it simply means that the Natural Inclinations of following the Female Path to Satisfaction is Extra-Ordinarily Different than the Inclinations of the Male Animule.

I attended a university conference some 15 years ago in which the visiting female speaker from Chicago attempted to explain away the differences between men & wymen in the workplace. She insisted that on an average workday, the typical male office worker spoke roughly 6k words while the typical female churned out some 22k words.

The auditorium of largely female attendees broke out in a Roar of Giggles. I smiled and looked about to take note of the nodding smiles of the other gents at the luncheon who understood precicely what was being communicated. The said speaker continued on to explain the reason for this phenomenon; that wymen like to "talk out" problems facing the company -- while Men.... miss this benefit big time.

Huh ? -- Right ...

Anyway, the comment immediately brought to mind Hollywood's famous 1960s cult hero, Joe Friday as he was probing a female character for clues to the crime. After 3 or 4 minutes of superfluous tangential information, Officer Joe Friday finally gasps; "Please ... just the facts ma'am".

Few question the premise that the minds of men and wymen largely process information differently. Wymen LOVE gossip -- Men can't stomach more than a half-moment of it. In general, Wymen LOVE to pick up a gossip rag like "PEOPLE MAGAZINE" or STAR because ... well, because ... "Enquiring Minds Want to Know!" -- "Who's wearing what to the Oscars ??" they ask. Who's going out with who" they wonder.

50,000 years ago when Fred Flintstone got pissed at his neighbor, he'd pickup a Club and go "BAM-BAM". Not so inclined to Slug it out with their new enemy, the Weaker Sex, rep'd by Betty & Wilma resorted to "Gossip" to attack & destroy. Still goes on --- whether in an igloo, a teepee or a Madison Ave cocktail party.

When pre-politico Hillary Clinton was once asked about favorite films she mentioned, "Fried Green Tomatos" with a convincing straight smile. Actually she didn't have a prayer of answering it correctly, not after 50,000 years of genetical engineering.

Now there are "Gurley-Men", as Gov. Arnold has coined them, who do love the Gossipy Chit-Chat that is so foreign to half the Electorate -- but then as a Religious Kook once explained to me, that's because their Girlie Spirit plopped down inside some Bloke's Zygote in the Choo-Choo Train of Life.

But the Main Casualty has CLEARLY been the FEMINIZATION of the NEWS. Who cares about the hollywood wherewithal of the half-dozen Blonde Bubbleheads that Pollute the Nightly News?

Where o Where is Walter Cronkite? -- Where is Joe Friday? -- "Just the facts Ma'am"

And by the by, as I asked in an earlier posting, "Why do women spend Billions of Dollars in the Cosmetic industry in order to look like --- what she doesn't look like. Why not send those billions to feed starving African babies instead ?