Amanda McCall wrote a great pop-ed peace railing against the recent spread of hating on New Jersey. As she points out, New Yorkers making fun of NJ is something we accept because we know that the things they hate are not really representative of NJ. However, recently the NJ bashing has become ubiquitous, thanks to that train wreck of show called Jersey Shore. I love NJ, even if sometimes it's easy to forget why we're called The Garden State. Not only do we grow great tomatoes, we grow amazing people too.

Here's a taste of the Snookie themed rant:

Yo, you talk a lotta game, Washington state, but Jersey gave us Thomas Edison, Walt Whitman, Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Jack Nicholson, Whitney Houston, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, to name a few. You gave us Ted Bundy and Glenn Beck, so get the f*ck outta Jersey's face....

Worth a read, if only for a laugh. A tip of the hat to Ms. McCall for defending my beloved NJ.