And Flouridation Leads to Syphillus!

Jill is a much more optimistic person than I.  I see a handful of crazies and believe the world is full of stupid people.  She believes that the crazies are outliers.  The classic "glass half crazy" argument.

My evidence relies heavily on bumper stickers and yard signs.  I keep seeing houses with signs and flags that have a picture of a cannon and the words "Come and Take It."  So I've been collecting them.  Hey, they told me to.

Turns out, according to the inter-web, it's an emblem for the "government-is-evil, keep-your-liberal-paws-off-my-liberty, guns-are-my-God-given-obligation, why-is-there-a-black-man-in-the-White-House" crowd.  Probably they don't actually mean for me to take their signs.  Oh well, my collection is extensive already.  Check out my e-bay page if you want to buy something.  Or just come and take something.

The girls and I were driving the other day and we saw a pink SUV with the twin bumper stickers of "Ask Me About Mary Kay" and "Come and Take It."

They can have my make-up when they wipe it off my cold, dead face!

Not sure I would want to get eye-liner from her.  But if I did, I certainly would make sure I paid on time.  And I bet she doesn't make you pay sales tax.

Then, a few days later, I was at a light behind a car festooned with a wide variety of bumper stickers that were aimed at educating me about the multiple, vast, and connected conspiracies that abound.  Of course, he had your "9/11 was an inside job" and your "Get rid of the IRS."  As well as bumper stickers bemoaning our loss of liberty, imploring you to love your country but fear your government, and a smattering of missives about the UN, World Bank, and about how wrestling isn't actually real.  I knew that one.

He also had one that had a picture of the moon and a long explanatory paragraph.  I thought, "OK, this guy is questioning the moon landings."  Seemed par for the course. 

But upon further reading (it was a long light), the bumper sticker actually questioned the existence of the moon.  Seriously.  This guy had a bumper sticker suggesting that the moon does not really exist, and that the government has created the illusion of the moon for nefarious purposes.  Likely somehow related to taking our guns.

I'm guessing that this is an outlier even for the crazy community.  When he sets up his booth at the International Association of Delusional People (IADP)*, I'm guessing that the regular crazy people walk around it.

"Floyd, I'm with you that the government wants to take our guns, force us to learn Spanish, tax us at 131% of our income, review our browsing history daily, and make us eat kale, but your 'moon doesn't exist' thing is just plain nuts."
* for those of you who want to go to the IADP conference, they don't publish the location, dates or times.  You have to find the coded message in the back of "Guns and Ammo" magazine or the "Liberty Letter."  It'll be under the ad for gold and next to the ad for freeze-dried bunker food.