Teabagging: Sucking Testicles for Lower Taxes

So the Huffington Post has managed to forge something of a nexus of teabagging which provides up-to-the-minute scrotum-sucking updates on today's teabagging protests. It serves as a delightful chronicling of today's activities which are, themselves, basically a montage of the high points of the last election cycle, the republican national convention, and a gay pride parade / episode of Oz which is meticulously crafted to the height of absurdity.

In addition, youaredumb.net is celebrating a week-long Mr. T themed "pity the fool" celebration of all things teabagging. Which I think gives the protest the respect it deserves.

What I'm trying to figure out as I sit here not doing work is what I'm supposed to think of this. Individuals within the 95% of citizens who have received a tax cut are protesting the unfair taxation they've received under the Obama administration. After one laughs one's balls off...what does one do? Ought I pity the fools?

If we're going by the facts then the protestors are incorrect. Perhaps they are mistaken and are simply reacting to what they have been told by Fox News...but oughtn't I expect individuals in their mid 50s to be literate and inquisitive? Presumably they would, at the very least, utilize multiple news outlets rather than simply barking to Glenn Beck's whistle. But is that asking too much?

Sure, it's funny. Yes, I enjoy making scrotum jokes. And I do take a bit of delight in knowing that, somewhere, there is a dump truck full of teabags driving around D.C. as a result of the protestors not filling out the correct forms required to dump teabags on a tarp in a park...but...isn't it problematic that there are some who are not laughing at this?

At this moment there are individuals who take these protests seriously. That seems problematic.

These are the people: