Too Stupid for Words category archive
Petty Arseny 0
Shorter Donald Trump: I’ll take your ball and go home.
Parks and Wreck 0
The San Francisco Chronicle looks at the Trumpling of the national parks. A snippet:
But that 2013 shutdown, he said, was “a stewardship act”: Without employees on duty to manage and provide stewardship, the parks would be vulnerable. “I think we’re actually seeing that play out now,” he added.
Wildlife has been dining on garbage that normally would be collected and secure — a wildlife buffet that contributed to the decision to close Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, and raised dangers of human-bear encounters at parks from Yosemite in California to Big Bend in Texas.
Much more disturbing stuff at the link.
Phoning It In 0
All you folks who just had babies, remember, in just 13 years, you will have a teenager.
The Uncertainty Principle 0
Writing at the Bangor Daily News, Gordon L. Weil explains. A nugget:
The biggest problem facing the U.S. is not immigration, health care or a trade war.
It is uncertainty.
(snip)
The source of the uncertainty is President Trump.
Follow the link for his rationale.
Twits on Twitter 0
Elie Mystal points out that Twitter is basically a fact-free zone and pretty much everybody knows it.
Punk’d in the Pocketbook 0
You may have heard about the Payless Shoe chain’s “Palessi” prank, in which Payless invented a tony ersatz brand, “Paylessi,” and gulled folks with more money than sense into paying hundreds of dollars for $20 shoes.
At Psychology Today Blogs, Utpal Dholakia draws three lessons from this. Here they are; follow the link for a detailed discussion of the Paylessi prank and of each of these items.
- We should be skeptical of recommendations given by influencers and so-called experts.
- We should treat brands like wrapping paper on a Christmas present, not the present itself.
- When making a purchase decision, we should pay attention to the product features that really matter.
Twits on Twitter 0
The twit less followed . . . .
A quibble. Facebook purges nothing on its ownsome. Once you have been assimilated by the Zuckerborg, the Zuckerborg does not easily let you go.
You can deactivate an account and remove it from public view, but deleting it is much more complicated.
The Summit of Trumpling 0
David tries to make sense out of Donald Trump’s behavior at the G20 Summit.
A Frightening Fireball of Fantastickal Fomentation 0
The San Jose Mercury-News reports that internet whack jobs are cooking up all kinds of loony conspiracy theories about California burning.
We are a society of stupid.
