Now that we have an actual name to assist in our routine ridiculing of Rogue109, today's odd venture into feigned intelligent discourse is ... a weird 'correction' of Roy Barnes's statement on Georgia's geography ...

Vapid and ignorant rhetoric like this shows that the arrogance of King Roy hasn’t left…it has just been repackaged. And for someone who professes such superior knowledge about Georgia and its place as the “largest state geographically east of the Mississippi,” it is amusing he seems unaware that Michigan actually is the largest state geographically (including water within its borders) east of the Mississippi with 97,990 square miles. Georgia is only 59,425 square miles in size, water included.

I suppose we can leave aside the comical irony that drips from Pete's observation on 'vapid and ignorant rhetoric' and focus instead on a few other things. For starters, the obessive examination of geography as a defining factor in whether or not to vote for Barnes is rather stupid off the bat (particularly for a guy who gleefully pulled the lever for George W. Bush twice), but whatever.

Yet Pete - who never met a 32-word headline he didn't like - takes that absurdity and morphs it into something even more spectacularly pathetic by absolutely botching the 'correction' because, of course, Georgia is the largest geographical state east of the Mississippi River in terms of land mass and is fourth in total area. As a result, Barnes wasn't factually wrong (as neither is the U.S. government).

Regardless, it's just a tremendously shallow conversation to have, isn't it? Not that I'm stunned. In fact, the only thing that truly stuns me about the post was that he didn't work in his usual anger-laced attack on African-Americans, women or any other demographic group that isn't classified as 'white male.'

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