Multiple choice question - Identify the image below:

 



Is this image....

A: An infrared image of a toilet bowl vortex
B: An artist's rendition of a spinning electrified top
C: Bootlegged CGI image from the next Harry Potter film
D: A Black Hole

If you answered D - A Black Hole, congratulations, you are probably not a member of The Stupid Nation cadre.  But, Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price is well ensconced with this constituency.  You see, Commissioner Price took umbrage during a special meeting of County Commissioners discussing problems with a government agency.  Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield referred to the agency as a "black hole" at which point the good Commissioner Price interrupted, and claimed that Commissioner Mayfield was using an offensive racial slur.  The meeting then devolved from there, of course.

We did a Google search on the term Black Hole, and received a mere 63,700,000 hits.  Of course, we don't have the time to analyze each hit to see if it is referencing the astral phenomena, but we dare say that Commissioner Price has his work cut out for him if he wants to purge the world of this phrase to describe "...a region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, not even light, can escape its pull after having fallen past its event horizon. The term "Black Hole" comes from the fact that, at a certain point, even electromagnetic radiation (e.g. visible light) is unable to break away from the attraction of these massive objects. This renders the hole's interior invisible or, rather, black like the appearance of space itself." (Wikipedia)

In a perfect world, we would prefer that our elected officials are knowledgeable, wise, fair, educated, sincere, honest  people.  Sadly, the political world is very, very imperfect, especially in the Dallas County area of Texas.


PS:  We offer no apologies for using the term 'black hole' in our Giant Shop of Horrors piece.  If you think it was a racial slur, then welcome to The Stupid Nation.