Ongoing tales of Toledo stupidity
posted 2006/06/06 at 18:14
posted 2006/06/06 at 18:14
To continue on yesterday's theme of why Toledo is such a stupid place, our local cable company -- you know, the one that cut everyone's Internet access for over twenty-four hours a couple of weeks ago or so -- has just started a new advertising campaign. The gist of the campaign seems to be, "We're so big we have to pay all these taxes, so you should be thankful because we fund your police and fire departments." Uh, yeah.
Oh, and you did hear about our mayor referring to our (African-American) fire chief as "King Kong," right? Then again, stuff like that is only to be expected from a man who took Gallagher's joke from the 1980s about giving houses by airports to deaf people, and during his first tenure as mayor in the 1990s actually tried to make that official city policy.
Don't get me wrong, I know that no matter where I live I'll be sure to find stupidity in one form on another. It's just that Toledo seems to have its own unique kind of stupidity that, try as I might, I can never wrap my brain around.
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