Too Stupid for Words category archive
Naked Lunch 0
The Miss Grundys of the world are never satisfied.
Afterthought:
By the by, if you have not read William S. Borroughs’s Naked Lunch, do so. Among other things, you will learn the etymology of the phrase “Steely Dan.”
NIMBY Nonsense 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
To express their annoyance at the situation, around 20 residents of the village in the Haute-Savoie – home to a total of 600 people – have signed a petition to have the cows moved.
The petition, signed “only by second home owners” in the village, according to mayor Henri-Victor Tournier, including Brits, Belgians, Corsicans and Parisians, complains of the “noise of the animals on the paths opposite the chalets and apartments of the Corbier hill”.
Follow the link for more nonsense.
Words Fail Me 0
I learned about this from a person who was helping me with some financial matters today.
Yes, it’s real.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. We have become a society of stupid.
Protection Money 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles, in an interview with USA TODAY, said more than 1,000 agents have already hit the federally mandated caps for salary and overtime allowances that were meant to last the entire year.
This is what happens when you run the government like one of Danald Trump’s businesses–one bankruptcy after another.
Via Juanita Jean.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
This is your country on Trump.
“It was just something stupid that we thought would be funny, but it didn’t turn out to be funny at all,” the boy told Fox 13 Memphis. “It wasn’t supposed to be racist.”
Ugly Americans 0
Drunk as a skunk, stupid as a rock:
The 41-year-old American, who was lightly injured in the attack, is now under investigation for violating the law against the use of symbols from banned organisations, Dresden police said in a statement.
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Public displays of Nazi symbols like the swastika or gestures like the “Heil Hitler” salute have been banned in Germany since the end of World War II.
The polizei are looking for the assailant, who faces assault charges.
“The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Delete” 0
It would appear that the International Olympic Committee has given up all pretense of being about anything other than mammon. Bob Molinaro reports:
State Fair 0
No, not the one with Pat Boone. The other one. (Link NSFW.)
Stay Thought 0
Not all nuts come in bags.
Customer Satisfaction 0
Bob Heghmann, 70, filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court, saying the national and Virginia Republican parties and some GOP leaders raised millions of dollars in campaign funds while knowing they weren’t going to be able to overturn the law also known as Obamacare.
This suit doesn’t have a prayer, of course, as it is completely detached from objective reality.
As are most Trump supporters.
Details at the link.
Da Mooch 0
Well, that didn’t take long.