Too Stupid for Words category archive
Maskless Marauders 0
Aside:
I went to the eye doctor yesterday for a regular check-up (I’ve worn glasses since 7th grade; the first day I wore them to school, I remember my teacher’s looking right at me sitting there in my assigned seat and saying, “Where’s Frank Bell?”). In the course of the visit, I learned that my ophthalmologist is rather–er–peeved about folks who refuse wear masks in public.
I warned him not to get me started . . . .
The Medicine Show 0
I don’t know about you, but this story truly gave me heartburn.
Plumb Loco 0
You can’t make this stuff up. (Warning: Short ad at the beginning. Story starts at about the 24 second mark.)
Mask Derangement Sydrome 0
At the Greensboro News & Record, allen Johnson explores strategies to combat the hold-outs who would endanger themselves and others by refusing to wear masks. Here’s one of his thoughts; follow the link for the others.
Would reverse psychology do the trick? As in “Hillary Clinton says don’t you dare wear a mask”?
A Question of Identity 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
Context 0
John Archibald unmasks a list of no-nos.
(Lack-)Wits Gathering Wool(ery) (Updated) 0
We are a society of stupid, and the stupid, it burns. It burns all of us.
Image via The Bob Cesca Show Blog.
Afterthought:
I was in a shop recently and said to the clerk, after a bit of banter, “I never thought I’d live to see the end of the American dream.”
But I have, and America did it to itself.
I am not sanguine.
Addendum:
Unmasking the Maskless 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Bree McEwan explores why some Americans are so dead (ahem!) set against wearing masks, despite that doing so is easy and painless, in these viral times.
Her article defies excerpt or summary and is worth the four minutes it will take you to read it.
“B-B-But No Other Explanation Makes Sense” 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, David Ludden explores recent research as to the varied reasons why some persons adhere to conspiracy theories that are plainly absurd in the light of pesky things like “facts,” “knowledge,” and “logic.” Here’s one element he cites; follow the link for the full discussion.
Facebook Frolics 0
You’ve heard of Typhoid Mary? Meet Korona Karen.
Karen Karenlike 0
If the show fits . . . .