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jberryhill

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3. So, they are smart

Reply to Lucky Luciano (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 22, 2014, 08:50 PM

Jan 2014

I don't get the point these protestors are trying to make, but I'm fascinated with the notion that being a "smart person" is some sort of independent virtue.

I'll bet the chemical engineers who came up with the process for making whatever the fuck is in the water in WV are freaking geniuses.

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