Politics and baseball

I just want them both to be over. I couldn't care less about either team in the World Series and I hate reading all of the vitriolic rants from both sides of the fence that inevitably appear after any polictical article. My Cubs got railroaded out of the playoffs because they all suck. Apparently, the myth about women living in proximity having their meunstral (sp?) cycles synching up is true, because the entire team seemed to having vaginal problems against the Dodgers. Oh well.
If I turn away from sports, the only thing left is the upcoming election. Rednecks are afraid that Obama is going to proclaim us a Muslim nation and take their guns away. Idiot right-wing radio hosts like Mancow are claiming that Israel is going to bomb Iran if Obama is elected because the Israelis believe he's Muslim. And then you have a whole lot of people who are going to come out of the woodwork to vote for Obama, not because they believe in his platform, but because he's going to give them a free pass if he's the Prez. What really kills me though is the legions of idiots who go online, read an article (or watch a recap of the SNL episode w/ Sarah Palin), and then shoot off at the mouth. I'm reasonably sure that everyone who posts a comment online in response to an article is either a hilljack or hippie. Seriously, none of these people have an ounce of sense and they all eventually resort to name-calling. If there's one thing I learned from growing up in an area densely populated by hilljacks, it's that they don't know how to argue. "You're stupid," "You're gay," or "You're a f#@*ing fag" are the strongest munitions in their arsenal and they fire them at every opportunity. It's funny how quickly even a nimble-minded reader can be dragged down to the level of double-wide dwelling dufus when reading some of the tripe that's out there online. Almost as bad, but more well-written, are the retorts from the elitist posters who wax poetic about their knowledge of issues and love to talk about how right they are and why exactly they harbor that particular point of view.
I've gone on way too long here; I started out wanting to say that baseball sucks right now and politics are pissing me off. But the World Series will be over soon, and the election shortly after that. And then I can have more free time to tinker with my fantasy football teams and write blog posts that no one will read.