Work-related insanity

People are stupid.  It makes me sad sometimes, and angry sometimes.  The other day at work someone (out of my sight and a ways away so I couldn't tell who it was, or I would have responded) was saying "You hear what Obama did?  Made Atlanta a disaster area, before a friggin' rain storm!  You know why he did it- I'm not allowed to say it.  That part of the country is.. darker."

Wow, where to start? First of all, why on earth would preparing for a storm be a bad thing?  Should we just wait till a week after before responding, like Bush?  And this storm ended up killing 16 people (last I checked.)  It was freezing rain; I'd rather have snow.  Freezing rain pulls down trees and power lines, is harder to drive and walk through, etc.  And Atlanta isn't as prepared to deal with winter weather as we are in Ohio.  And I have family in the path of that storm.  I did look up Atlanta's demographics; it is slightly majority-black.  But that matters exactly how?  Did the guy think Obama forgot about his half-white background?  And he faults a president for doing his job of protecting people and planning ahead.  Yeah, an idiot.

On the other hand, the same day I had a reasonable conversation about minimum wage with a known conservative, someone I did not expect to agree with (we both think it should go up.) There's definitely divisiveness around, particularly from Fox and other TV sources. But people can talk about things, and work them out.  Just not politicians, and talking heads.