do any vegetables actually grow on trees?

if you follow political blogs at all, chances are you've come across this video:



yes, this lady looks very foolish... but as someone who had the misfortune of listening to hours of concerned citizen monologues during my journalism days, she's pretty standard in terms of rambling imbeciles at government meetings.

if you attend meetings at any city government/school board, you eventually WILL encounter someone as ignorant and poorly prepared and terrible at speaking as santa cruz lady. if you're particularly unlucky, that person will be a board member.

in fact, the santa cruz lady isn't even all that bad. she was boring and didn't make any sense, but you just tune that out when you realize it's not going anywhere.

far worse are the people leading quixotic crusades about local issues or against certain board members. i always found it really ironic that even if people had valid beef with the board, probably 95 percent of them doomed themselves just by stepping up to the microphone. adults who speak like inarticulate third-graders don't get taken seriously.

i remember this one guy who called himself "dr. drainage." giving dr. drainage my phone number was easily one the biggest mistakes of my journalism career.

every single week, he'd be at the city council meeting droning on and on about sewers and storm water and retention ponds and god knows what else. to be fair, he wasn't a standard "village meeting idiot" because he was actually quite bright- just abysmal at presenting his ideas.

i guess the reason i find this video so odd is santa cruz lady is basically just like sarah palin in terms of incoherency and ineptitude at presenting ideas, yet millions of people wanted palin to became our vice president. i think this is probably my favorite takedown yet of palin's gibberish speeches.