Too Stupid for Words category archive
Death and Taxes 0
What happens when someone makes a typo that results in the SSA or the IRS deciding that you are dead?
Sally Parsons can tell you. A snippet:
Her saving grace is a 2013 apology letter from the Social Security Administration, which reads: “Our records incorrectly showed you as deceased. However, we have since found that you are alive.”
In the last year, she tried to refinance her home but underwriters told her she was dead. She can’t get rebates for the solar panels she installed on her house. She didn’t receive any stimulus checks, and she paid her taxes but didn’t receive any tax refund.
The Vaccine Nation Goes to School 0
Writing as a guest columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, University of Georgia professor Peter Lindsay is less than sanguine about the Georgia University Board of Regents policies in these viral times. He points out that, in the name of “freedom,” the Board has acted in questionable ways, eschewing mask mandates and vaccination requirements; indeed, they have prohibited teachers from so much as inquiring about students’ vaccination status.
A snippet; follow the link for the rest:
Vaccine Nation, Dropping the Ball Dept. 0
Field seems concerned that our media and, for that matter, our polity don’t have their eyes on the right ball.
Poor Planning 0
Here’s a bit of the artist’s commentary:
Flag Daze 0
Florida Man has his Trump flag stolen and finds a note.
Vaccine Nation 0
Writing at The Colorado Sun, Mike Littwin argues the anti-vaxs, anti-mask crowd has a strange and dangerous notion of “liberty.” A snippet (emphasis added):
Follow the link for his reasoning.
(Broken link fixed.)
The First Date 0
He’s off to a fast start in the new relationship.
They Drank the Snake Oil 0
A Nevada feed store is now requiring customers to provide pictures of their horses if they want to purchase horse de-worming medicine.
And, in related news, an Ohio judge orders diet of dewormer.
We are a society of stupid.