Too Stupid for Words category archive

To quote John Cole, “Nucking futs.”

Afterthought: Bigotry is a constant undercurrent, the bassline as it were, of wingnuttery.

A subcommittee of the Human Space Flight Review panel said turning over transport services to the International Space Station to private firms would allow the U.S. space agency NASA to focus on new challenges, such as extending human presence beyond low-Earth orbit.

Three letters. K B R.

All joking aside, if someone tried to get me busted for attempting to enter my own house, I might be a little non-plussed.

Being non-plussed is not and should not be a crime.

When a cop finds out no crime is being committed, he or she should just leave. Not make one up.

Via BartBlog.

It’s bigger than any one of them: The racist innards of the right-wing keep spilling out.

See more examples here.

What amazes me is that, when they get caught out, they really don’t see why what they’ve done is offensive.

It is to be ashamed.

Congressman Castle inadvertently gives Birthers a platform.

The video of the June 30 town hall meeting on health care reform shows a woman toting an American flag and her own U.S. birth certificate asking why people are ignoring the president’s birth certificate. She said Obama is a citizen of Kenya, not the U.S.

The crowd applauded and cheered as she yelled, “I don’t want this flag to change! I want my country back!”

Castle, attempting to correct her, said, “If you’re referring to the president there, he is a citizen of the United States.”

If you want to see the video, follow the link to the news story. I decided not to embed it after inspecting the YouTude poster’s other offerings. We’re talking serious wingnut here.

If Mr. Obama were pink like me, this birther fantasy would be unimaginable–and unimagined.

You know it and I know it.

I know I’ve seen a traffic stop on World’s Dumbest or some similar show where this happened because Mama wanted to make room in the back seat for some purchase or other.

Now it’s happened again.

Almost everywhere I click on this here box, someone is speculating about the reason Sarah Palin threw in her frozen Alaskan towel.

Here are some examples (the last one is most intriguing): Link. Link. Linkety–link.

There is a fallacy that informs this speculation:

The touching faith that reason was in any way involved.

Genetic purity. How Aryan.

That fits right in with this.

And the irony is they just don’t see the connection.

Via the Booman.

It’s 20 miles long and 30 feet high and they still run into it.

Not.

For South Hampton Roads teens like Knight, getting a gun is as easy as making a phone call or sending an e-mail.

It took just $70 for a young person to buy a .32-caliber revolver from “some guy” at a Portsmouth gym. In Suffolk, gang members share handguns hidden under bushes and beneath houses, taking them and returning them like spare pennies at a convenience store.

Weapons pilfered by teens and adults from homes in neighboring Gates County, N.C., last year filtered back to southeastern Virginia within months on the black market.

In Virginia, it’s against the law for anyone under 18 to buy a gun or to possess a handgun or “assault” firearm in public unless they’re hunting or carrying out duties in the armed forces. It’s also illegal for juveniles to possess any gun on school property, unless it’s an unloaded rifle or shotgun that’s in a closed case or on a vehicle’s firearms rack.

But authorities say guns are widely available to youngsters. That has turned teenage disputes into crime scenes time and time again, and has ratcheted up the violence in felonies committed by juveniles – particularly robberies.

And, in other news, the National Rifle Association opposes efforts to require legitimate gun owners to report when guns are stolen.

They keep coming.

Some Republican is alarmed that Democrats might force something French down our throats–the metric system.

Steve considers:

But I do understand the Republican fear of the metric system. It would bring them into the 18th century, and that was certainly a scary place to be. Why, there was a revolution back then, with real live tea parties . . .

It just keeps coming, fast and furious.

Why is my telly vision subjecting me to an advertisement for a homeopathic remedy for doggy pain?

Homeopathy is crap. But it appears to be really lucrative crap.

Oh. My. Goodness.

I am now waiting for Court TruTV to start a new “World’s Dumbest” series.

Via Atrios.

An off-duty Dover police officer, who attempted to restrain a reckless driver at the Dover Mall, had his foot run over when the car’s three other occupants tried to flee arriving officers, police reported today.

The mopes are in the pokey.

On top of everything else, one of them hit the officer.

Stupid goes all the way to the bone.

. . . why is it that whenever conservatives want to attack President Obama they invoke George W. Bush?

And Bozeman, Montana, is determined to make it more so. It is demanding that applicants for public jobs surrender their user names and passwords to social networking sites:

Speaking with a local Montana TV news station, City attorney Greg Sullivan says Bozeman takes privacy seriously. But he defends the burg’s log-in grab. “So, we have positions ranging from fire and police, which require people of high integrity for those positions, all the way down to the lifeguards and the folks that work in city hall here. So we do those types of investigations to make sure the people that we hire have the highest moral character and are a good fit for the City,” he said.

Giving up your user name and password violates the terms of service for most social networking sites.

As my three or four regular readers know, I regularly point with derision at those whose think what they do in cyberspace is somehow secret or private. But Bozeman is out of line here.

I have been to Bozeman. It’s probably not a good idea for them to artificially narrow the pool of prospective public employees.

It cut Dan Froomkin loose.

Supposedly, his column didn’t “work” any more.

Mr. Froomkin just had a consistent history of getting things right.

My three or four regular readers know that I have quoted him frequently and that his analyses just as frequently turned out to be spot on.

Apparently, being spot on doesn’t fit with the Post’s editorial policy these days.

All they have left in their stable of regular writers who’s worth a damn is Gene Weingarten.

It’s one thing to watch a newspaper die. It’s quite another to watch one kill itself.