and we wonder what's happening to this country.

Who can argue against more maps? Unfortunately, Miss SoCarolina needed a hell of a lot more than that. I saw this on Jay Leno, and I cringed and felt sorry for this poor girl, then I felt sorry for South Carolina and eventually, I felt sorry for our awesome edjumacation system. Then I went to a bar and killed thousands of brain cells and still made more sense than this girl. This should be a wake up call.... It's not cool to be stupid anymore, unless you want to be prezident.

So, she won. . . right?

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry on this one.

She commented on how she did here:
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20053504,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines

I like how she tried to fit Iraq in there. *Sigh* yet another exposed mole for the Bush administration.

MOAR MAPS

Filler. Meaningless words.

THIS is what's chapping my hide lately. Say what you want, in simple, plain terms. DO NOT attempt puffery. I hear it in job interviews, meetings, and in line at the grocers.

C'mon folks, say it simply, then STFU

They threw a random fact (that may not even be true) at a teenager and expected her to immediately and coherently form an opinion on why it may be so. Then she turned it into comedy gold without meaning to. Ha!

She ought to take any prize money and use it to form the Upton Geographic Foundation, providing free maps to children throughout the world, like South Africa and Iraq.

GW asked "Is our children learning?"
I'd say the answer is a hearty "they is!"

I'm just glad I didn't hear "end world hunger" or "world peace" in there anywhere.

she should have just said "because one fifth of Americans are terminally stupid."

I mean, who the hell can't find the US on a map? Is the map of a different country? Are these elementary school children who haven't taken any geography in school yet?

I saw on the Today show this morning that she is coming to ASU to go to college! I am from Boone NC, where ASU is located, and now am convinced that I did the right thing going to school elsewhere! They have a heck of a football team though! Maybe she can make public appearances! Whoo-hoo!!

Even with a second try, she still didn't answer the question as to WHY. FAIL

"It's cool scro my wife's tard and now she's a pilot!"

I'm struck that she doesn't say "Iraq", but "THE Iraq." Repeatedly. I wonder if thats a regional linguistic thing, or maybe a migration from military slang like "the sandbox."

I just want to be her.
How simple and sexy life would be. Care-free.

....but I bet she can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.

In Arabic, it is The Iraq. Perhaps she's secretly multilingual.

I was watching this live with my wife -- and when Miss South Carolina began to speak, I literally felt my brain melt and ooooooooze out my left ear.

It was some Manchurian Candidate-level s**t there, man... her ramble triggered a deep psychological imprint that I must've received when I blacked out in that Roy Rogers parking lot back in '85.

It was just so sad and horrifying and ultimately baffling. Come to think of it, I reached Enlightenment that evening.

I weep for my state. Even her "redo" on the Today Show still makes me wonder why our education system fails our children so badly.

I think y'all bein' mean.

A sweet-looking girl, she's simply trying hard. She was asked a pretty open-ended question that would have floored me. Was she standing for office? When was the last time you saw a political candidate with a beauty queen sash?

I'm looking forward to seeing Hillary Clinton asked about her cellulite and dress sense.