Too Stupid for Words category archive
Gainful Employment 0
Heaven forbid that professionals should receive remuneration for practicing their profession.
Where oh where is my fainting couch?
Smart Phones . . . 0
. . . dumb people.
Extrapolating from that sample, the researchers estimated that at least 76,000 such injuries had occurred nationwide during the 20-year period — with more than 9,000 cases a year in 2016 and 2017, the most recent years available.
The moral of the story is, “Look where you’re going.”
(Details at the link.)
What’s with a Name? 0
PoliticalProf wants to know.
News with a Bias Cut 0
Shorter Jenice Anderson: Persons who complain about biased political reporting often can’t tell the difference between fact and opinion.
Follow the link for the evidence.
Droning On 0
One of these days, somebody’s going to get hurt. You can bank on it.
Droning On 0
It was only a matter of time . . . .
The two food carts, which are part of the Piedmont Station Food Carts pod, were broken into early Tuesday morning, with the burglar getting away with computer tablets, money, speakers, utensils, business checks, and other items.
More at the link.
Suckering the Suckers 0
Mike Brooks takes a look why people take the click-bait. A snippet:
Those clickbait headlines make us curious to see what’s behind the curtain, so to speak. To quote the sagacious, Forrest Gump, who was quoting his mother, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.”
The Weather Channel 0
Give me a break.
Indeed, I was on the phone with an associate today and asked him what he thought about the Weather Channel. He said, “They just want to get people upset.”
Me, I can’t stomach the Weather Channel for more than 15 minutes at a time (unless it’s snowstorm pictures–and then it’s the pictures, not the channel).
A short synopsis of today’s hurricane coverage:
“It’s chaos here in Charleston, South Carolina! Look! A tree has been blown over!”
Fifteen minutes later:
“It’s chaos here in Charleston, South Carolina! Look! A tree has been blown over!”
And it’s the same damned tree.
In other news, it’s looks like we’re going to get off easy on this one.