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Too Stupid for Words category archive

“Tee Many Martoonis” 0

And hipsters wonder why we laugh at them.

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A Surfeit of Stupid 0

Local residents want Pokemon Gone.

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Droning On 0

It sounds like the plot of a half-baked stoner movie screenplay, but it’s actually happening: Google boss company Alphabet and Mexican food chain Chipotle have become the flying burrito brothers under a delivery-by-drone plan that will first target the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).

How is this not biological warfare?

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Twits on Twitter 0

Geographically-challenged twits.

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Send In the Clowns 0

Two creepy clowns have been caught. Of course, they weren’t actually creeping creepy clowns. They were creepy clown callers-in, or whatever the proper term may happen to be.

During a subsequent interview with deputies, Brandon Jerome Moody, the man who placed the 911 call, initially claimed to have seen “clowns around a white van parked on Hammett Road.” Moody, 26, then changed his story before admitting that he fabricated the clown tale.

Moody, pictured above, confessed that he was aware of “all the complaints about clowns and the schools being on lock down.”

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“Facts Are What People Think” 0

Leonard Pitts, Jr., laments the passing of truth. A nugget:

“Why haven’t you reported that Colin Kaepernick’s actions are due to his radical Muslim beliefs? Why are you covering this up?”

So reads an email sitting in my inbox.

Not shockingly, Snopes, the fact-checking website, has rated the claim it makes as false. . . . .

That truth is not offered in hopes of persuading my correspondent. It is presented simply as a snapshot in time, a postcard from post-factual America. Meaning America of the last 20 years, where untruth is gospel, reality is multiple choice and “facts” are whatever you have testes enough to say and somebody is dumb enough to believe.

Read it. And weep.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Shooting the messenger frolics.

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How Stuff Works, Technology Improves Lives Dept. 0

Rat appears in couple's living room.  Man says,


Click to see the image at its original location.

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Trumping History 0

Shorter Mike Pence: Lies come with a sell-by date, don’t they? This one’s old news.

I find this you will pardon the expression deplorable.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Resurrecting Reagan.

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Facebook Frolics, Too Trifling for Words Dept. 0

From time to time, the stupidity, venality, and shallowness of the Zuckerborg leaves one speechless.

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Twits on Twitter 0

The Chairman of the Board.

Via Atrios.

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The Climates They Are a-Changing 0

Via Raw Story.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Trending.

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Picklegate 0

This one’s a dilly. Jimmy Kimmel slices to the root clausens. You might say he knows the sour, as he’s climbed the Mt. Olive. His response is vlassic.

Watch him gherkin Alex Jones around.

Elsewhere, Bob and Chez earn their bread and butter.

Video via Raw Story.

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Empty suits as far as the eye can see.

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Childhood’s End 0

No, not the science fiction story. This:

The summer school students plopped down on an orange mat and listened as teacher Elizabeth Fraley read aloud to them from a book. As she pointed out different animals, they took turns pinning the lion and polar bear pictures on a corkboard.

They had already gone through parts of a book – front cover, back cover, spine – as they sat outside on the grass in Santa Monica. People walked by with their dogs. One floated past on a hoverboard.

The children, ranging in age from 3½ to 5, were engaged in more serious pursuits. They were at KinderPrep, a $1,000, weeklong boot camp designed to prepare them for the rigors of kindergarten.

Words fail me.

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Snared by the Snaring Economy 0

She pulled over to check that she had not forgotten her prescription and she got shared.

. . . she heard the car door behind her open.

A young woman was already seating herself in the back of Sue Ellen’s sedan and a young man was about to open the rear door on the passenger side.

“I think you have the wrong car,” she said – pleasantly, I’m sure. That’s the kind of person Sue Ellen is.

“Oh, then you’re not our Uber driver?” the young woman asked.

We are a society of stupid.

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Unhinged at Any Speed 0

You can’t make this stuff up.

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Digestive Dissonance 0

Who would have possibly guessed that “McDonald’s” and “fitness” don’t mix well?

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