Blonde Airheads

There were I recall lots of blonde jokes. The target of these jokes were supposedly ditzy blonde women who are real airheads.(Of course, ultimately the joke was on us because they all became fox TV reporters.) Recollection of these jokes recently sprang into my mind. The prescient among you can probably guess what provoked this. Now it is not true that every thing that Donnie says reminds one of the other blonde airheads, it just seems that way.

His most current mental meander concerns the Civil War and his notion that people don't think about what caused it and how it might've been prevented. It is accurate that that does not tend to be a hot current topic of discussion. But, actually, for some reason a while ago the conservative Republicans seemed to be reviving that topic. Their contention was that the Civil War had little if anything to do with slavery. It was about the Constitutional Rights of states vis-à-vis the federal government. In the run up to the Civil War, there was the issue of the right of the states to nullify Federal law.John C Calhoun, for instance wrote a defense of the state's right to do so. But what this had to do with was the right of the southern states to resist any attempt of the federal government to end slavery by nullification. So there is no doubt, particularly when one reads contemporaneus statements of southern leaders urging secession, that it was all about slavery and the rights of southern states to keep that institution. Although Donnie, who apparently doesn't read much, might not know it, the topic of how and what caused the Civil War has probably been as extensively researched and written about has any subject of American history.

Lest you think I am being unfair to Donnie by comparing him to blonde airhead jokes, he is not alone. I don't know if the republican state politicians in Texas are blonde, but they are certainly airheads. Legislation has been introduced purporting to give the state of Texas the right to nullify Federal law that does not meet their liking. There have been mutterings of a similar nature in other states in guess what part of the country.

So, it is probably unfair to revive the metaphor of blonde airheads. Donnie is probably not an airhead because he is blond, Should he change hair colors the way he changes ideas and concepts , he would still be an airhead. And, it would be totally unfair to blonde Women to compare them to Donnie in this respect.