Too Stupid for Words category archive
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.
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . and get treated worse than a dog.
Sunset Strip 0
South Carolina man hits a bad streak.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
We are reminded once more that politeness is child’s play.
(snip)
Officials said it appears the shooting was accidental but it’s unclear whether the child shot himself or was shot as children played with a gun.
The NRA will no doubt argue that, had the child been packing–oh, wait.
The New Know-Nothings 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., finds the Republican disdain for knowledge and information to be somewhat disturbing. A nugget:
Pass lightly — again — over the fact that Obama never said any such thing. What’s more fascinating is that Santorum — holder of an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and a Juris Doctor from Dickinson School of Law — would identify higher education as a mark of elitism.
Pest Control 0
In a stunning act of sanity, my city has taken action against Silicon Valley’s latest pestiferous scheme.
The council voted 6-5 on Tuesday to ban them in most of the Oceanfront resort area and along streets with speed limits above 25 mph — effective immediately.
We’ll see how long sanity holds sway.
Snakes (Almost) on a Plane 0
The TSA says he ain’t getting his snake back.
“The Information Superhighway” 0
Not so fast, Bucko.
Ewan Morrison argues persuasively that the world wide web has become an instrument for inculcating ignorance.
(Anti-)Social Media 0
Writing at the Hartford Courant, Barth Keck argues that Americans’ apparent willingness to believe anything they read on a computer screen is inimical to the polity. He uses the aftermath of Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide as a starting point.
Social media, simply, is poisoning American minds.
Follow the link for the rest.
Dishing the Dirt 0
Of course this happened in Florida.