Macon is home to some of the dumbest people in the world...

...And to prove it, all you have to do is look in the comments sections posted beneath the stories on Macon.com and on WMAZ-13's website. Most of the comments are negative and usually inaccurate, biased or hung-up on things that no longer apply (like C. Jack Ellis, who hasn't been the mayor for almost four months now).

But most baffling to me is that these morons bash this city endlessly but they continue to live in or around it. I don't know about you, but when I hate something, I get it out of my life. These idiots spend all day consumed with their petty hatred, going off in tantrums with their equally vitriolic Internet buddies... and they still live here. They don't move. They don't get involved. They just bitch about Macon--and everyone in it--on the Internet. Brilliant, eh? The irony is twice as delicious when they go off on the public education. I mean, no matter where they went to school, it doesn't say much good about your smarts when you don't have the brains to leave the place you hate so much.

The good news is that there's only a few of them. From what I can tell, even though they generate dozens and dozens of comments a day, it's only about ten or fifteen people doing it. In a city of 150,000 that ain't bad. Sure, there's others out there--maybe they don't have Internet access--but they too are few.

The really good news is that the people who feel positively about Macon aren't morons. They aren't stupid. They see the signs pointing in our favor and that's what fuels their enthusiasm. Better, there's more of these people than there are of the angry, self-loathing, comments page-dwellers.

If you don't believe me, pay attention to the Discover Macon campaign. It's going to do one very important thing: it's going to change the perception around so that the correct one remains. Right now, it still seems kinda cool--in that middle school kid skipping class kind of way--to bash Macon. That's because most people who can and probably want to see what's positive about the place feel like they must be wrong, that there are so many other people who dislike this place that they'd be foolish not to dislike it too. The fact is, there's way more who like it and they're already crowing. Expect that to get louder the longer the Discover Campaign goes on.