Tom Hank's volleyball from that movie has been getting hate mail, too.

byoolin's law: Statistically speaking, your neighbour is just fuckin' stupid.


The other night, the President of the United States said that "what we have also seen in these last months is the same partisan spectacle that only hardens the disdain many Americans have toward their own government.... unyielding ideological camps... an opportunity to score short-term political points... [and] confusion has reigned."

Tell that to Joe Wilson. He's got people logging onto his Facebook page to tear him a new one, calling him a bigot, blaming him for "the mess we are in," comparing him - unflatteringly - to Rush Limbaugh and the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, or accusing him of having "no class what so ever." The occasional poster thanks him for his "courage" or "for speaking the truth and for [his] public and military service."

But - and this is a big but - the odds are pretty good that those people meant to excoriate (or praise) Joe Wilson (R - SC), the Congressman who yelled, "You lie!" during the President's speech to Congress on Wednesday, and not the lawyer from Snohomish County, Washington who is running for Superior Court Judge.

Now poor Joe Wilson is left with a Facebook page that's been hijacked by people like Joanne Brazel-Wheatcroft, who call him "BIGOT!" and say that he's "proved... what assholes the republicans are." When her error is pointed out to her by a conservative poster, she attacks his "grammer" and notes that "I did manage to find "the" Joe Wilson after I realized my mistake. I am not a republican, so I can admit I made a mistake, but I have corrected it!"

Since Ms. Brazel-Wheatcroft has not, as of this writing, apologized to the candidate Wilson, one might reasonably infer that correcting her mistake means that she's since redirected her sentiments to the congressman Wilson.


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Let's hear it for the electorate!