Attention idiots: Turn on your computer monitor if you cannot read this question asked by Meghan McCain’s website:
Collective brainpower. More than sports prowess or political leanings or wealth or cultural accomplishments, this is the quintessential bragging point of a metropolitan area, the civic version of a playground taunt: I’m smart, you’re not.
Here’s what they had to say about the Louisville Metro combined statistical area’s love of the Jerry Springer: “Louisville performed poorly on almost all measures: Book sales and college-degree rates were especially bad.” Thanks, internet, for totally shitting on us today.
It’s customary in moments of civic insecurity like this to look at the poor dumb fuckers we actually managed to beat, so let’s do that. Who are these fellow-Einsteins? Why, the dumb-as-rocks communities of San Antonio (53rd), Las Vegas (54th), and Fresno (55th). While many would be quick to suggest that maybe Louisville’s educational system, from cradle to cardinal-lined grave, has serious room for improvement, and that we should put our money into a reconfigured school system instead of massive downtown economic projects, we think the appropriate lesson here is simple: Suck it, Fresno!!!!


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You can only take a ranking such as this so seriously when they list our metro area at 2.8 million. Where are we, St. Louis? You would think a website reporting on the smarts of the country would at least try and get their facts right.
I wonder if using our actual population would improve the concentration of smart people here and bump our percentage of smartness up a little.
Bah! That’s too much to think about. I’m gonna watch a Seinfeld rerun.
Maybe you should stick to sit-coms that are a bit more formulaic, like say, Friends or Everybody Loves Raymond … easier on the brain.
Ah, but we still have the dagocum sauce at Porcini’s.
so, by their standards, would a good public library system make a population dumber, because fewer individuals would have to buy the same book over and over?
I live in a city with a mediocre public library system, so I’m not sure. Certainly a good point raised.