Ok guys, I gotta confess...

[Lambsbread]

...I spent the past week in Branson, Missouri with my family.

Go ahead and laugh.

Hey! My girlfriend has family there!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Perhaps the worst thing about it is the county it's in voted for Todd Akin by 20 points.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Oh... and since this IS the Atlas.  

1992: R+21
1996: R+23
2000: R+27
2004: R+34
2008: R+37
2012: R+38

It's voting habits are atrocious.  

Its voting habits are stupendous; its culture is what's atrocious.

[Paul Kemp]

Did you attend Yakov Smirnoff's Dinner Adventure?

[Mechaman]

Never been there.

Lot of my friends have been there and they act like they went to Colorado or some sh*t.  Which I really don't get, considering that the only act I remember anybody mentioning from the place was Yakov Smirnoff.

By the way, what kind of act does he do now?  "In America you buy stocks, in Putinist Russia stocks buy you!"?

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Oh... and since this IS the Atlas.  

1992: R+21
1996: R+23
2000: R+27
2004: R+34
2008: R+37
2012: R+38

It's voting habits are atrocious.  

Its voting habits are stupendous; its culture is what's atrocious.

How could it's culture be atrocious when they repeatedly reject the RACIST DEMOCRATS?

[Paul Kemp]

Never been there.

Lot of my friends have been there and they act like they went to Colorado or some sh*t.  Which I really don't get, considering that the only act I remember anybody mentioning from the place was Yakov Smirnoff.

By the way, what kind of act does he do now?  "In America you buy stocks, in Putinist Russia stocks buy you!"?

There are videos on YouTube if you're feeling adventurous.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07HUIOUbWG4

Um...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Another fairly interesting thing about Branson is that it has a per capita crime rate comparable to that of Camden, though this is common in tourist heavy areas because the actual population is much lower than people there, and the per capita is driven up. I think the highest crime city in New Jersey isn't Camden, Newark or East Orange, but rather than the tourism heavy Ocean City for that reason as well.