As a self-righteous slob, let me be the first to say that clean people don't have a monopoly on smugness.

Honest, self critical slobs, that are able to view themselves from others' point of view, and still make a conscious choice to be slobs are alright in my book.

Can you imagine if they were clean?

Your puzzlement is predicated on the assumption that dreadlocked hippie activists are automatically unclean.

Have you ever got up close and personal with dreadlocks? There's no way to keep them clean.

Yes and that's untrue.

Is this a regional thing? I don't think I've ever seen one of these.

I spent three semesters at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

They tote Marxists? No wonder they're smug; they must be incredibly strong!