Are you weary of the bombastic, often specious, statements made by public figures of all shapes and sizes? I certainly am! …and my wife has grown equally weary of my vociferous proclamations pointing out said behavior, so I’ve decided to go ahead and express my disdain the old-fashioned way – by writing about it.

I seem to encounter hapless souls who fall into one of three general categories of ignorance:

1) the bloviating doofus – entirely tongue-tied and/or incapable of expressing themselves coherently.
2) the vacuous pontificator – angry about something; subscribes to the ‘ready, fire, aim’ approach to public discourse.
3) the self-righteous miscreant – [loudly] voices misguided skepticism and/or suspicion of, well, anything that doesn’t align with their world view.

I will award 1, 2 or 3 emoticons, as follows:

Legend
:‑& a.k.a. the bloviating doofus
>: a.k.a. the vacuous pontificator
>:\ a.k.a. the self-righteous miscreant

1 emoticon = bronze, 2 emoticons = silver and 3 emoticons = gold. …heck, with the Olympics just around the corner, why not?!

Let the verbal jousting begin!

Emoticon reference here.