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Getting the Wind UP 0

I reckon he’s never heard of “batteries.”

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Facebook Frolics 0

Anti-vaxx frolics.

We are a society of stupid.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Tech geniuses.

Yeah, that’s the word.

Geniuses.

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Call Him the Bag Man 0

Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Air-brained twits.

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Driven to Destruction 0

The headline for this story in the print edition was “Doomed Buggies.”

Sports cars don’t perform so well on the deep sands of the Outer Banks, but they keep coming anyway.

A purple Dodge Challenger bogged down on the Currituck beach Sunday. It was the third stuck sports car captured on social media since late December, and that’s just a sampling.

More tales of the stupid at the link.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

You can’t top this.

Emily O’Connor wrote on Twitter that while preparing to fly March 2 from Birmingham in the United Kingdom to the Canary Islands, she was informed by Thomas Cook staff that her outfit – a cropped top with spaghetti straps and high-waist pants that exposed a section of her midriff – was “inappropriate” and “causing offense.”

O’Connor had no trouble getting through airport security, but said at least four staff members surrounded her once she boarded her flight, prepared to forcibly remove her from the plane if she didn’t change.

Aside:

Not being familiar with the term “crop top,” I did a web search.

“Crop top” appears to be new speak for a “halter top” that is longer than a traditional halter top. Based on the images I saw, I’d have to say that Thomas Cook Airlines needs to have its mind washed out with soap.

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Great Moments in Stupid 0

Another driver Teslas the limits.

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The Last Voyage 0

Title:  Feeding time on the Climate Change Deniers cruise.  Image:  Ship labeled S. S. Darwin surrounded by hungry polar bears on shrinking ice floes.

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Pokemon Gone Wild (Updated) 0

The stupid. It burns.

Addendum:

At the confluence of Pokemon, prejudice, and stupid, some good news.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Tampering twits.

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Willful Ignorance 0

Dick Polman comments on Donald Trump’s council of climate change charlatans who claim that climate change cannot be, but, if it is, it’s benign and beneficial.

A snippet:

Actually, it’s no mystery how we’ve lived to see this day. This day was guaranteed when 46 percent of the electorate chose as its president a flat-Earth crank who tweeted in 2014 that “GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop!” and has never masked his hostility to science.

In related news, my local rag today had a long article about how rising sea levels are devastating rural coastal communities.

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Facebook Frolics, Just the Vaxx, Ma’am, Dept. 0

Doctor is examining child covered in spots.  Child's mother says,

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Remember experience shows that, as Sandra Cothran points out at The Roanoke Times, “social” media isn’t social.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Hacking twits.

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Republican Family Values 0

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Just the Vaxx, Ma’am, Reprise 0

The stupid. It burns.

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The Climates They Are a-Changing 0

Learn more about the events Farron refers to.

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Factors in Fabulism 0

In a long piece at Psychology Today Blogs, Joe Pierre attempts to understand anti-vaxxers. Here’s a bit:

In addition to conspiracy-based mistrust, Matthew Motta and his colleagues explored whether the Dunning-Kruger Effect — whereby those with the lowest levels of actual knowledge tend to have the greatest degree of overconfidence regarding self-rated expertise — might figure into anti-vaccination beliefs.15 Administering a survey to 1310 US adults, they found that over a third of respondents believed they knew as much or more about the causes of autism than doctors and scientists and that such overconfidence was highest when respondents demonstrated low levels of actual knowledge and higher levels of misinformation about the relationship between autism and vaccines.

I commend the article to your attention.

Afterthought:

I think it may help in understanding the Trumpettes, as well.

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Anti-Faxx 0

Woman towing child and carrying a banner that reads,

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(Broken link fixed.)

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Facebook Frolics 0

Anti-vax frolics.

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