(M. Moford) Who are the 13% of us who've never heard of global warming? And how can they be stopped?

[StrictlyRockers]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/02/23/notes022307.DTL&nl=fix

Behold, The Lost Americans
Who are the 13 percent of us who've never heard of global warming? And how can they be stopped?

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Friday, February 23, 2007

Behold, this bizarre demographic. Behold this odd and simmering and rather shockingly large hunk of the American population because chances are very good that at least some of them live right next door to you and breathe the same air and steal your parking spaces and often don't shower for six days at a stretch.

And maybe, just maybe you should be painfully, dreadfully aware of them because they are -- in their quiet, seemingly innocuous way -- far more deadly than any gay evangelical preacher or meth-lab gang-bangers and far more frightening than chicken-flavored soap bubbles for dogs and far more disconcerting than Britney Spears' barren skull.

They are, in short, the deeply uninformed. The inexplicably ignorant. The wondrously numb, the disconnected, the way, way out of touch. And they are, apparently, legion.

Let me be clear. I am not speaking merely about the ideologically lopsided and the intellectually misshapen. I am not speaking of, say, those armies of happy blank-eyed red-state 'Merkins who only read NASCAR-themed Harlequin romance novels and only drink Hooters-branded energy drinks (real products, both) and who like to bury their gay sex fantasies under mountains of happy homophobic sing-along God-fearin' megachurch denial.

Nor am I speaking of your average Bush-lovin' bobbleheads who...

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Oh, it's just too good. Moford has a way with words and you shouldn't have to wait till after the jump for this one!

Nor am I speaking of your average Bush-lovin' bobbleheads who appear to get their worldly information by way of licking the stuff found on the bottom of the rocks in front of Fox News HQ and then tripping for three days while watching "The O'Reilly Factor" from the bathtub.

:rofl:

SR

[muntrv]

1. The scary part is this 13% reproduces at will.

[LynzM]

2. An awesome rant...

I emailed him to tell him how much I liked it... I'm just sad and angry that it needs to be written, at all.

[Doondoo]

3. Morford is one-of-a-kind