stupid, stupid, stupid!

Those of you who have not been following the Arizona news lately should know that we had this headline a couple of days ago:

Arizona ranks dead last in ranking of smartest states

and this one today:

First-grader set himself on fire during fire safety class

There was this other article in the middle that explained that our test scores are fine, but the study counted how much states spend per student, and Arizona doesn't spend much. That one contains this fine quote by Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne about the company that produced the list:

"Morgan Quitno's a stupid company, and I would estimate they have no employee with an IQ over 90," Horne said.

Anyway, keeping in mind that the comments on the Arizona Star site tend to develop a life of their own in terms of not exactly ending up on topic or being particularly civil, in the comments on the first article, someone suggested that states that voted for Bush were well represented at the bottom of the list, prompting someone else to point out that it was school kids tested, not voters. The response is the belated quote of the day:

Nits grow into lice.