"Moron" Is Not Gender-Specific

THE LADIES CAN QUALIFY, TOO

We learned something new today.  Although I suspect when most of us hear the word "moron" we think of a kind of stupid guy, but the word "moron" is not really gender-specific.  That was demonstrated clearly for us today in a letter posted in the Daily Pilot Mailbag online, HERE.  Dictionary.com provides us with the definition of the word, HERE, and also explains the origins - Greece.  Hmmm, that kind of makes sense, doesn't it?

PROOF...
A person named Jami JoAnne Russell, (shown here) who has graced those pages before with similar bilge, this time attempts to exercise her very limited literary skills to criticize the folks from Costa Mesa First, HERE, for the initiative they hope to place on the November 2016 ballot, HERE,  that would return more control over Costa Mesa development to the voters of the city very much like Newport Beach's Greenlight Initiative did many years ago in that neighboring city.

FITZPATRICK IS HER DEFENDER

Some of you may recall that when Ms. Russell published another opinion on the pages of the Daily Pilot and I wrote a comment criticizing her presentation, former Planning Commission Chairman and de-frocked Costa Mesa Sanitary District Board member - and now self-described "Solutioneer" (shill) for Medical Marijuana interests in town - Jim Fitzpatrick leaped to her defense and criticized me for daring to criticize a woman who works at the Mesa Verde library - as if that had anything at all to do with anything!  In retrospect, he may have been doing "research" on his new cause to become what he refers to as a "subject expert".

TOLD THE COSTA MESA PUBLIC SQUARE FIRST
Ms. Russell posted her intent to submit this letter to the Daily Pilot on the Facebook page, Costa Mesa Public Square - that misnamed repository of group-think that wallows in self-adulation as "the" place to be for all things Costa Mesa, and where the discussions are guided, in part, by this city's most notorious racist - a guy to whom I refer as "The Mouth From Mesa North".

PANDERS TO THE WEAK-MINDED
His rants pander to the weak-minded - some of whom participate actively on that site - like the poor, misguided Ms. Russell, who has taken a page right from the knee-jerk reaction to the initiative by Mayor Pro Tem Jim Righeimer, who told the world that it would "destroy our city".

CONSIDERING THE SOURCE...
So, as you read Ms. Russell's little screed - the editors wisely did not publish it as presented - I thought you'd like to know a little more about her.  Many of us presume folks who take the time to write letters to the editor are mature, concerned citizens who take the time to study issues and present their views to provide balance in the discussion.  Well, to help you understand the source of THIS diatribe, here's a little YouTube message from charming Ms. Russell - one of many such little presentations from her on that site.  Warning!  This 5:38 YouTube video is guaranteed to offend more than a few of you.