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Q: ‘How Many Right-Wing Extremists Currently Reside at This Address?’

Posted on | May 17, 2010 | 8 Comments

Really, these Census questions have become so intrusive . . .

The lady from the Census Bureau stopped by yesterday, thanks to my personal effort to stimulate employment: Don’t fill out the mail-in form, so they have to send an enumerator to the house.

Your tax dollars at work — temporarily, at least.

Despite the concerns of Andrew Sullivan and Rick Ungar about Michelle Bachmann and Glenn Beck inspiring anti-Census violence, the enumerator was held hostage only long enough to pose for a picture.

Category: Census

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8 Responses to “Q: ‘How Many Right-Wing Extremists Currently Reside at This Address?’”

  1. Carol
    May 17th, 2010 @ 4:32 pm

    The Census taker showed up at my house last week. A very nice elderly gentleman who took his job very seriously. Unfortunately for him, he caught me a couple beers in and I giggled through the whole thing. I started when he asked if I was “male or female” and just couldn’t get it back under control. At the end he thanked me and shook my hand saying, “well, that was different.” I think he meant it as a compliment.

  2. Carol
    May 17th, 2010 @ 11:32 am

    The Census taker showed up at my house last week. A very nice elderly gentleman who took his job very seriously. Unfortunately for him, he caught me a couple beers in and I giggled through the whole thing. I started when he asked if I was “male or female” and just couldn’t get it back under control. At the end he thanked me and shook my hand saying, “well, that was different.” I think he meant it as a compliment.

  3. Joe
    May 17th, 2010 @ 6:21 pm

    Did you offer her a coffee mug?

  4. Joe
    May 17th, 2010 @ 1:21 pm

    Did you offer her a coffee mug?

  5. Howard Towt
    May 17th, 2010 @ 9:51 pm

    That photo has replaced Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” in my mind. Instead of a pitch fork, it’s a census form…

  6. Howard Towt
    May 17th, 2010 @ 4:51 pm

    That photo has replaced Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” in my mind. Instead of a pitch fork, it’s a census form…

  7. Dean
    May 18th, 2010 @ 2:38 pm

    Is that an SEIU t-shirt on the Census worker?

  8. Dean
    May 18th, 2010 @ 9:38 am

    Is that an SEIU t-shirt on the Census worker?