Reported by The Economist

I'll let tw handle most of this, but I just wanted to point one thing out -

"corrupt" doesn't necessarily mean "dishonest". It can mean "riddled with errors". When you hear about a "corrupted" file, do you think that means that it's dishonest and mischievous?

Also...

The overwhelming majority of the people in government today up to and including the Secretary of State of Florida are honest and law-abiding people who want to give something back to society.

Do you have evidence to this, or are you really that naive? Money talks, my friend. A lot of them are there for the money.

As for referring to her makeup - how is this juvenile? He wasn't insulting - he simply said she had "big makeup". Oooh. I guess you dismissed (or maybe never even considered?) the fact that making references to subtle details will enhance an argument in a sub-conscious sense because it gives the listener the feeling that the arguing person was paying great attention to detail. Only tw knows why he wrote it, but it doesn't read to me like he was saying "Ooh! Ugly woman! Ugly woman bad! Ugly makeup! UGLY! POOPOO! POOPOO ON UGLY WOMAN!" That would have been "juvenile".

Oh yeah. I have a suggestion - on your tombstone, have inscribed "Here lies WWARNER11, the fucking smartass."