Don't you wish stupidity were painful?

I have a low tolerance for stupidity.

In fact if I had my way all the stupid people would be frog-marched down to the dock and put on barges for islands far away from me and mine.

Now I’m not saying that smart people can’t have “moments of reverse intelligence” - I think everyone is entitled to a couple of those – new mommies can have as many as they like.

For the record – I’m not talking about uneducated people. Some of the smartest people I know never made it past the 10th grade.

In fact, many of the EI’s (educated idiots), as I will refer to them – usually have more than one set of letters behind their name.

These folks typically hang out in areas of higher learning and somehow feel they have the right to talk down to others despite the fact they’re standing there looking like something the cat dragged in and smelling vaguely like the same.

You know the type. They’re the type that blows their nose into handkerchiefs and then peer into them as if they’re going to learn the secret of the universe from the formation of snot on the cloth.

They’re also the type who put their asinine comments on the CBC and CTV news stories lamenting about Canadian Peacekeepers and how we need to bring our soldiers home.

Apparently they’re too educated to realize that you can’t keep peace if there’s no peace to keep!

And who is supposed to broker peace? Are they volunteering to go over to these countries and tell them to settle down? Of course not!

They would rather sit on their comfy couches and provide armchair commentary on things that they don’t know anything about.

That’s how these people are – they don’t live - they read about living and then tell others how to live their lives.

They’re the ones who have made this world so politically correct and bogged down that there’s no way to get things done directly and efficiently. And they’re the first ones to bellyache about the fact there is too much red tape.

New Brunswick is about to go to the polls for a provincial election.

Let’s make sure that the arm chair livers aren’t the ones deciding the fate of the rest of us.

Get out and vote.

Or like my mother, a woman definitely not in the EI category, would say – if you don’t contribute – don’t complain!