Well, if you live in Connecticut, anyway. Glenn Beck informs the world that the federal government is uninterested in owning land in Connecticut and New Jersey because it's crappy here.

Granted this is delivered in Beck's usual paranoid-slapstick style, so it's tough to tell exactly where the serious argument ends and the self-parody begins. If he's seriously arguing that the current ownership of natural resources in Alaska is bad for the state's residents, he should probably check with his newest colleague. The former governor surely remembers where the funds that helped avoid budget cuts and tax hikes, and that also back annual stipends to every Alaska resident come from.

And I don't know about you, but I can actually think of some federally owned land in Connecticut, including a little riverfront tract that some people have fought awfully hard to keep under federal control. Ask Rob Simmons about it, Glenn. Or even this guy, though I'm betting he's not in your speed dial.

But all that aside, what's up with a former New Haven shock-jock calling the great state a "rathole?" Is there really no love for us, Glenn? I understand your memories of the good old days may be a little fuzzy, but really, no need to take it out on the rest of us.

And is this where we should point out that Glenn Beck lives in a mansion in New Canaan?