Too Stupid for Words category archive
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.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
You can’t top this.
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.
Pokemon Gone Wild (Updated) 0
The stupid. It burns.
Addendum:
At the confluence of Pokemon, prejudice, and stupid, some good news.
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:
In related news, my local rag today had a long article about how rising sea levels are devastating rural coastal communities.
Facebook Frolics, Just the Vaxx, Ma’am, Dept. 0
Remember experience shows that, as Sandra Cothran points out at The Roanoke Times, “social” media isn’t social.
Just the Vaxx, Ma’am, Reprise 0
The stupid. It burns.
Factors in Fabulism 0
In a long piece at Psychology Today Blogs, Joe Pierre attempts to understand anti-vaxxers. Here’s a bit:
I commend the article to your attention.
Afterthought:
I think it may help in understanding the Trumpettes, as well.
David Delves into the Dinar Dodge 0
Normally, I would not post something like this.
But I know first-hand someone who buys into this sort of stuff (and you probably do too)–someone who should know better, but will believe obscure Youtube videos and web sites on the back roads and woodland paths of the inner webs before he would believe the handwriting on the wall, even if he himself had seen the moving finger having writ it.
Purists on Parade 0
Shorter Dick Polman: The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Aside:
At this point, I pay no attention to who wants the Democratic nomination for President.
But my disdain for the “I agree with 90% of your positions but once you said something that hurt my fee-fees so I’m taking my vote and going home” crowd remains undiluted.
Also, any Democratic nominee is certain to be better than every Republican nominee, regardless of his or her flaws.
Vote in the real world, for Pete’s sake.