Steve Benen raises a good question. Has South Carolina surpassed Florida as our most ridiculous state? I’ll pose another. How’s Alaska doing?
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Whaaaattt????? Is Oklahoma no longer a state???
Did I miss something??
Too rich a field to pluck just one winner.
Why not make it easy and try to come up with a not-ridiculous state? Narrows it WAY down.
how about categories of ridiculousness with 5 candidates for each category (to win an Academy Award of ridiculousness)
Hardly. Texas will never relinquish that title. It’s a badge of honor with them.
i dunno guys, I think South Carolina’s really moving the ball up the field.
Love the dildo and viagra in the suv at all times “just in case”. Just in case of WHAT, exactly?!?
I suppose in terms of the utter hypocrisy, they are certainly in the discussion anyway.
I would like to vote for my state of California.
Well, don’t count California out, so long as Ah-No!ed remains in place.
No, West Virginia is.
Now everyone has some good nominations, but I think you’re overlooking Louisiana. The voters there will only vote for someone that they feel that they are smarter than. It has produced some classics.
I love watching Bobby play southern, almost as good as watching Dubya “clearing brush.” The lead up to his rebuttal of Obama’s state of the union, reminding himself “talk slow, talk slow” while he was thinking these people are dumb, dumb, dumb. More than two syllables in a word and I’ve lost them.
Is your signature a Buffy quote perchance? If so, it was uttered by cousin Beth (played by Amy Adams, yes, that Amy Adams) in the episode “Family”. If not, I’ll apologize for being such a great big nerd and make shush now.
Let’s be honest here, NJ set new standards this summer when the FBI’s powder blue bus set out early in the morning to drive around the state rounding up 42 people of all ages, and a multiplicity of races and religions (including, for example, a 35 year old mayor and an 80 year old rabbi) re: an international organ-selling money laundering scheme.
Some truly deserving nominees here – all of them, in fact. Illinois and Arkansas merit a mention, too, and Rhode Island, Idaho, Arizona, and New York aren’t far off. And it was Minnesota that (among other things) elected a third party pro wrestler as governor. Can’t overlook Tennessee, Alabama, Maryland, or Georgia, either.
Are we up to 26 yet, where the suggestion above of looking for the non-ridiculous instead would be easier?
I haven’t lived in NM in over a decade, but a friend of mine used to argue it was the most democratic state, because nowhere else in the US could nearly everyone afford to bribe an elected official (mid-$200’s was the going rate back then).
Around here, I’ve heard the amount increases incrementally the closer one gets to Chicago.