If you know anything about me, you know that I enjoy following the politics. I've got some pretty strong views on some issues. I'm almost always (and by that I mean, 99.9999999%) vote Democratic. In 1998, when George Pataki got all of the votes in his bid for a second term as Governor of New York, I was one of like 600 people that voted for Peter Vallone. In fact, I've only voted non-Democrat once. That was for Independent Mike Bloomberg in 2005. I've always been glad that I did. Even though he's turned the city into a huge corporation, it's a nice, clean, exciting, fun place to live (albeit expensive), now even more than ever.

Now, I'm even happier. New York is lucky to have him as our mayor, and hopefully his successor in 2009 (he has to leave office because of the Ed Koch-inspired term limits law) will be equally good. His Op-Ed in the New York Times today shows that politicians don't always have to be partisan assholes. Bloomberg's a smart guy, and if he does have national political aspirations, I'd be proud to count myself among his supporters.

Speaking of smart people, here's a link that I meant to post a couple of weeks back before I caught the flu. It's about the continuing stupification of America, and Americans on-going hostility toward knowledge.

It's funny. In 1996, Dennis Miller ranted about Americans hostility toward knowledge, suggesting we live in a country where calling someone "Einstein" is almost always an insult. It's crazy the extent to which that's come true. It's somehow hip to actually not know things. Which is fucking ridiculous on so many levels that it boggles my mind.

Labels: idiots, Michael Bloomberg, New York Times, smart people