Willful Ignorance: the List

• The "blindly religious" who abhor challenges to their Faith, defending it without regard to inconvenient or contrary fact.
• Judgementally religious -- absolutely certain of God's will -- who scrutinize all that is wrong in other people's lives.
• Unwed teenage mothers who know all they need is their baby's love.
• Absentee sperm donors who confuse the ability to impregnate with fatherhood.
• Middle age black folks who think Obama will pay for their gas and rent.
• Middle age white folks who think Obama is a Muslim socialist.
• Fat white chicks and their skinny Puerto Rican boyfriends.     She:  "He's the only one who ever accepted me for who I am." He:  "She's everything I ever wanted in a woman... and more yo."
• Foreclosed mortgagees who still can't figure out why they couldn't afford the loan they obtained through a shady dealer, with no down-payment, little savings, insufficient income, and suspect documentation -- all at variable interest originated when rates were at historic lows.
• Tax cutters who ignore the fact money needs to be spent -- hence raised -- on roads, bridges, security, and the social programs they passive/aggressively demonize but refuse to cut.
• Tax spenders who ignore the fact that the public is pretty well maxed out paying for stuff they can only afford without excessive tax burdens.  And that programs such as counting bald eagles and subsidizing the wool industry aren't high on most people's priority lists.
• Gay activists demanding their lifestyle be accepted, approved, and consecrated by religions that are based in part on the tenet that homosexual activity is sinful.
• Ideologues forsaking their own humanity to deny the validity of two individuals' love for one another.
• Classic Rock DJ's who think the latest Eagles album counts as new music:  "It's a banner day at Z-98 folks!  We've got a new song from Nazareth coming up.  But first a greaaaaat tune off Dennis DeYoung's latest..."
• Anyone who doesn't turn the dial after hearing the above.
• Homophobic, misogynistic, racist, elitist bloggers who confuse intelligence with intellectualism and display no sense of irony; calling out the thorn in the eyes of others while ignoring the beam in their own.

More to come...