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"The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010."

Allegedly.

1) You

Charges: Your brain?s been cobbled together over millions of years of blind evolution and it shows. You?re clumsy, stupid, weak and motivated by the basest of urges. Your MO is both grotesquely selfish and unquestionably deferential to questionable authority. You?re not in control of your life. You wear your ignorance like a badge of honor and gleefully submit to oppression, malfeasance and kleptocracy. You will buy anything. You will believe anything. You believe that evolution is a matter of belief. You likely scrolled down to #1, without reading the rest, because you?re an impatient, semi-literate Philistine who?s either unable or unwilling to digest more than 140 characters at a time. You think Epic Beard Man is a national hero and that Bradley Manning might be Eli and Payton?s brother. You believe in American exceptionalism despite the contrary, compelling and overwhelming evidence. You tacitly partake in all manner of atrocity without batting a lash. You?re actively participating in our species? extinction and you?re either in denial or you just don?t give a shit. You escape into every sort of mind-numbing distraction and ridiculous, convoluted fantasy, so you don?t have to face the bitter, terrifying fact that your life is utterly meaningless.

Aggravating factors: The careers of Rush Limbaugh, Oprah Winfrey, John Stossel and Justin Bieber; the success of The Secret, ?Medium? and Atlas Shrugged; the election of Rand Paul; the existence of Kentucky, Texas and ?Sarah Palin?s Alaska.?

Sentence: Bad teeth, an affinity for afternoon tea and the guilt-plagued, nostalgic psyche of a fallen empire.

Click through to see who "you" beat. Barack Obama is on the list, but it's not exactly bipartisan. Great illustration. Good detail. Many pop culture and sports characters are included.

Full post as published by Althouse on January 20, 2011 (boomark / email).