Eight Feet Deep

 One has to won­der about the intel­lec­tual acu­ity of soci­etal mem­bers who engage in totally over-the-edge Inter­net dis­course for all the world to see.

 I speak of the recent flap over a poll placed by a third party on Face­book that asked if the Pres­i­dent of the United States should be killed. That such a hor­ren­dous post would be put up by some dips**t for mil­lions of read­ers is stu­pid beyond imag­i­na­tion on more than one level. Some 700 responses were received before the offend­ing poll was removed by Face­book. Left out in all the sto­ries I have read were the num­bers vot­ing in the affir­ma­tive. We thus have lit­tle knowl­edge whether the omis­sion was a ges­ture of good taste or some­thing to do with the ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion of the inci­dent by the Secret Ser­vice. It would be kind of instruc­tive to know.

 Given that a per­son or per­sons are stu­pid enough to post some­thing so obscene makes me think there are peo­ple who are as equally moronic that they would answer online in favor of the question. 

 Now I don’t know if all Face­book polls are cre­ated equally but I see quite a few voted on by my Face­book friends that are exhib­ited in plain view on their sites. But even if the poll allowed for some smidgen of anonymity, do you think that maybe author­i­ties like the Secret Ser­vice might just find a way to crack that secrecy via war­rants and var­i­ous legal niceties?

 It doesn’t mat­ter if you were jok­ing — and if you were jok­ing I can’t imag­ine any­one with the sense of humor to laugh at such bar­bar­ity — if you were stu­pid enough to vote on that poll and answered some­thing other than “no” it seems like you should be due a visit by some scary look­ing dudes wear­ing suits and dark glasses. And that is the way it should be.

 Some actions do not rise to the level of felo­nious stu­pid­ity. I say post­ing this poll on Face­book, and vot­ing at all, but at the very least vot­ing “yes” or “yes if he cuts my health care” is griev­ously stupid.