You know how to measure the IQ of a mob? Take the lowest IQ of all of the participants, and divide it by the total number of people in the mob.This goes double for government.
This afternoon, my wife was watching one of the approximately four thousand episodes of 'Law & Order' she missed when we didn't have cable, when that piercing metallic drone they use for alerts comes on. Naturally, being good Pavlovian subjects, we turned our full attention to the message crawling across the screen. Here it is in its entirety:
Civil Authorities have issued a child abduction alert for the following counties: North Carolina. Effective until 6/25/08, 6:48 P.M.
How much more fucking useless can this be?
Which Civil Authorities? Volunteer firemen? Voting station staffers? Boy Scouts? Whoever they are, they apparently want our help in finding this child. It might...just might be useful to...oh, I don't know...describe the child, perhaps? Boy or girl? How old are they? What were they wearing? What's their name, for God's sake? And North Carolina is a state, you morons, not a county. Good old NC has one hundred counties covering almost 50,000 square miles. You wanna narrow it down a little bit more? Or should people in Asheville be calling anyone they know in Wilmington? And you either expect to find this kid within 26 hours, or they're on their own after that. Otherwise, why set an expiration date on the alert?
Is it now a prerequisite to get a lobotomy before you can work in the government? It helps me when it comes time to vote, that's for sure.
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