Too Stupid for Words category archive
Vaccine Nation 0
Yet more stupid: Ted Cruz picks a fight with Elmo the Muppet over COVID-19 vaccinations.
We are a suicidal society. We are stupiding ourselves to extinction.
Facebook Frolics 0
Aside:
I’ve reached the point that, when someone tells me some outrageously disgusting bit of “news,” the first question I ask, particularly if puts members of a protected class in a bad light, is, “Did you read that on Facebook?”
Kindergarten Kamakaze 0
Afterthought:
I try to imagine any one of my elementary school teachers, all of whom were grandmothers or close to it, packing heat, and I just can’t.
It’s easier to visualize Curly Stooge teaching calculus.
Our Own Tower of Babel 0
In a fascinating discussion, David interviews Jonathan Haidt about what led to our becoming a society of stupid (hint: “social” media isn’t).
Read Haidt’s article.
(Missing word found.)
Beach Blanket Dingo 0
The country used to slope to the southwest, but, apparently, it now slopes to the southeast, and everything loose now rolls to Florida.
Twits on Twitter 0
Someone should tell SFGate’s Eric Ting that it’s futile to try to to make sense out of stupid.
A TikTok Blockbuster 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Facebook Frolics 0
We are a society of stupid.
We will believe stuff we read on a computer screen, but, if the same stuff came in the mail, we wouldn’t even open the envelope.