News: I'm With Stupid: Stupid Is Alive and Well in the Nutmeg State

In my ongoing research for this column, there are certain states that seem to appear on my radar more often than others. Florida, for example, is the current epicenter of stupid, and on any given Friday the antics of Sunshine Staters alone could fill a dozen columns. But picking on Florida is low-hanging fruit, so I only dip into that well when I must.

Texas, by virtue of its sheer size and Texas-ness, is always good for scads of stupid, as are California and New York for very similar reasons. Alaska, surprisingly, has been a fount of stupid recently thanks to a certain family and matriarch from Wasilla. And then, of course, there are crazy-mountain-man havens like Idaho and West Virginia and put-the-fun-in-fundamentalism states like Kansas and Utah. Those are always a hoot.