So, I saw this e-mail... and I really can't believe that people think like this. This person goes on and on about this map of election results by county which I have not included, but I'm sure you can put together a nice mental image for yourself...

Any way, though this person finds many things simply stunning, they only thing I am stunned by is how utterly nonsensical this e-mail is... Hold on tight kids, this is a bumpy road....

You know, it's interesting, I saw today the final county map, red state, blue state map by county, and if you just landed here from Mars, and you looked at that map, you would swear the Republicans won this thing in a landslide, if you didn't know where the population centers are. I guarantee you by county and by square mileage, we skunked 'em! But then you look at the coasts, you look all up and down the Left Coast, you look all up and down the East Coast, until you get past New Jersey and Maryland, DC, even Virginia, three counties in Virginia won it for Obama. Those three counties are microscopic on the map. But it's just amazing.

Ok... so I am trying to figure out what your point is here. You think that we should decide who wins elections on what exactly? If you look at the results of the election there is nothing confusing of baffling about it. Barack Obama won by pretty damn close to 10 million votes.

The population centers feature big cities, of course, and people who live in big cities are largely Democrat, and I don't know, for example, how many conservatives are going to want to move to a place like California. Look at the tax rate inCalifornia. How many conservatives who don't already live there, want to move toNew York? I mean, you need a great job, a lot of money to live there. Besides, conservatives don't Balkanize themselves. They live their lives; they want to be happy and so forth.

God, who would want to move to California? And additionally, I KNOW all liberals strongly object to people living their lives and being happy and so forth. I mean, like any other good liberal, I consider it my charge in life to be as miserable as possible and to try to spread that around. Like paying it forward in reverse.

Liberals are the ones that organize in little communes and cliques and cities and so forth and only want to hang around with each other and themselves. We're not that way in many regards. In some parts of country that happens to be the case, but this map is just stunning.

Yes, the only reason I leave my commune these days is to harass anyone who seems too happy (because they are obviously conservative) and, of course, to vote for Barack Obama.