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I watched the Daily Show tonight, and I was, once again, astounded by something incredibly stupid that an elected official said.  In this case, it was an old republican congressmen.  The topic was sex education, and the respected congressman said (something similar to) the following:

     "Isn't it rather elitist to presume that the supposed experts and professionals who have studied this matter know           how to teach our kids better than our parents?"

I sat stunned that someone would spout this off on national TV as an elected official of what is supposed to be the greatest country on earth.

It comes down to "Isn't it elitist to think that the people who are admittedly smarter than us know how to do things better?"

The answer of course is FUCK YES AND ITS A GODDAMN GOOD THING.

Do you think your doctor knows how to take care of you better than you?  You better hope so.  Do you think the people you vote for know how to run things better tan you?  I hope so, or why are you voting for them.

Elitism is not an inherently bad thing, especially if there are reasons behind it.  For example, Abstinence Education has wasted 1.3 Billion dollars on something that the experts said wouldn't work, and lo and behold, it didn't work.  Experts are called experts for a reason, they have specialized to the point where they are, in fact, better than you, at least where it comes to their area of expertise, be it your body, your kids, the environment.

Still, this is only the 2nd stupidest thing I've heard a member of our government say today.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia did an interview where he was asked if torture fell under "cruel or unusual punishment."  I saw this and expected... well, something about the changing times, or how its necessary, or some other bullshit he's concocted in order to live with himself.  Instead, he sat and thought, and looked up and said "Well, has anyone ever said torture is punishment?"  Torture isn't punishment?  Torture isn't punishment?!  It may be cruel and unusual, but its not protected under our constitution because it isn't punishment!?  I'd never even considered that someone might believe that torture isn't punishment.  How is it not punishment?  They've been bad or been planning something bad, and so you hurt them!  Thats what punishment is, ask any third grader.

There should be a third grader on the supreme court, he can't cast a vote on anything, he would only be on for a few years, but if any of the justices utter something so stupid that even the third grader says "WTF!?" the third grader gets to kick that justice off the court.