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I mean, come on, that's an obvious dye job. Can we lay off the "blondes are dumb" jokes?
To be fair, I wouldn't want to be put on the spot with that question either. What's the appropriate response? "Well, you see, one out of five Americans are total fucking morons, and there's really nothing that can be done about it. The government pumps billions of dollars into education, but you can't help a moron unless he or she wants to be helped."
I also have some difficultly with the idea that one in five Americans can't find America on a map; I have to ask how that study was conducted. I know some dumbasses and I live in what on some days seems to be dumbass Central, but I've never met anyone who wasn't disabled who didn't know where America is. It's the big colorful thing on the front of the road map, the one you use to drive from place to place.
