My Eyes 2013-W34

I can't say whether I'm noted for it, but I certainly do not mind rolling my eyes.   Sometimes the eye-roll stimulus is so over the top I feel I've rolled them back far enough to see my brain.  But this week I read something so incredible that I'm sure my eyes rolled completely around and back to the front.  A total 360° spin.  For this physiologic feat we can thank roughly 250,000 of Louisiana's likely bigots brightest citizens.

They compose the ⅓ of Republicans in Louisiana who believe Barack Obama was responsible for the Federal Government's poor response in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.  Even though — as most people with at least half a wit know — the hurricane occurred in 2005, three years before Obama was elected president.  Heck, he'd only been a US Senator for 7 months.  Now, I admit, some of these bright citizens may have done better with the mathematics involved if only they had 2,008 fingers and toes... although shopping for shoes would be a nightmare for the poor dears.

It remains to be seen if Fox & Friends and their ilk will pounce on this breaking story, you know, about another Obama failure.  Or maybe they'll want to investigate what other mischief he's been getting up to in that time machine of his.  Meanwhile, I suppose the real lesson here is that our human nature is to bend over backwards to believe what we wish to believe, even in the face of clear facts that prove otherwise.  Perhaps moreso when our minds are typically closed.

Please enjoy today's art.  I fear there is no hope for Fox News, but to the intransigents of Louisiana and the world I appeal to you by quoting Shaw: "Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

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