Undoubtedly, "low, sloping foreheads" is a reference to the Neanderthals, our phylogenetic cousins, whose skulls were, indeed, low and sloped.

You know, that's the dance of the low, sloping foreheads, the middle places, right?" Those remarks didn't take place in a cartoon on a Tea Party website. They occurred on Real Time.

It's been a week since New York Times columnist David Carr referred to middle Americans with "low-sloping foreheads" on Real Time with Bill Maher. One of the first pundits to react to the story ...

On Real Time with Bill Maher, New York Times media writer David Carr suggested those of us living Kansas, Missouri and other "middle places" represent "the dance of the low-sloping foreheads ...