God, every time I see another piece of political spin get thrown out into the world, I get a little bit more misanthropic. Case in point, a basic line graph of the increase in the price of gas, labeled with events and policies of the current congress (i.e. "2006 election day" or "Democratic Energy bill goes into effect") along the line. With absolutely no reference whatsoever to all the many, many other factors that could be, have been shown to be, and in fact, are contributing far more greatly to the price of gas than an attempt to find an alternative energy source before the entire American economy falls apart. And that's just what we've gotten from Congress (mostly the Republicans) today.

I look at this stuff, and I honestly wonder how any educated person, even one who benefited only from our less than stellar public school system, can just accept stuff like that at face value. And then I realize that people do, including people I work with and generally respect, be it through mental laziness or simple obliviousness, and I really, really, really just wanna hate people.

Fortunately, then I look over my flist and see other people pointing out these flaws, too, and I feel ever so slightly better. So, thanks!