Too Stupid for Words category archive
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.
A Plague of Brocusts 0
And this was just a few of the two-wheeled hazards we saw on the two mile trip to the grocery store. There were others in that same parking lot, as well as some left in the middle of a sidewalk in front of the local thrift store.
Phoning It In 0
More stuff you couldn’t make up.
Aside:
They should call them “stupid phones,” for they facilitate the stupid.
Unleashing the Stupid 0
We are a society of stupid, and “social” media is encouraging us to unleash the stupid.
And, natch, this happened in Florida.
Afterthought:
Internet of Things Easy Marks
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Why the hell does a light bulb need to connect to the internet in the first place?
Words fail me.
Via Le Show.
Truckin’, Like the Doo-Dah Man 0
After all, it’s his truck.