Too Stupid for Words category archive
This Is Just Nuts (Updated) 2
Not to mention bad judgment. (I don’t know how the last line of the story slipped by the editors.)
Addendum:
The Smoking Gun has a picture.
Facebook Frolics 0
The article is a little unclear, but it seems as if they were friends before Facebook.
No more.
“Dumb” Is Not a Generational Issue 0
Columns like this are a waste of time.
They are, at best, intellectual jello. A moment of sweetness with no lasting value.
Furrfu.
Prescience 0
I have a friend who has had diabetes since she was a teenager. She is no longer a teenager, though she is not so old as me.
She received a letter this week from her health insurance carrier informing her that, because of her claims, they suspect that she may have diabetes.
We wondered.
Was it 40+ years of prescriptions for insulin? for blood test strips? for syringes? for blood tests for sugar counts?
What, exactly, tipped them off?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Public Discourse . . . 0
. . . is going to the dogs.
One Born Every Minute, Iconography Dept. 1
A toaster that burns an impression of Jesus into your toast.
This will kill the Jesus toast market on Ebay.
H/T Susan for the link.
Unqualified 0
When I would jawbone with the IT manager at one of my old employers’, we used to agree that anyone dumb enough to do something like this on his work computer should be fired for stupid.
Sex Education 0
If you don’t talk about sex, it doesn’t exist.
(No, I don’t find it any easier to discuss with my kids than anyone else does–thank God my ex was a nurse who could deal with the Talk, and she dealt with it very well).
When I was a young ‘un, there was no such thing as sex education, at least not in the schools and in most cases not in the homes.
In rural mostly-Protestant Jim Crow Virginia, where I grew up, abstinence-only was assumed, at least by parents.
Sure, every year, some girls would sort of disappear from the high school, no one would say why.
Sure, every teen-aged boy back then was concerned mostly with how to become Not Abstinent.
Just like every teen-aged boy now and forever.
It seems to me that the only difference between then and now is that the teen-aged girls are a little more honest about wanting to be Not Abstinent.
Sure, knowledge is the best weapon against stupidity and against girls disappearing (or, more likely these days, ballooning) every year in high school.
Sure, our governor lives in a fantasy world where hormones don’t moan and ignorance promotes virtue.
The motto seems to be, “Let them learn about sex in the back alleys and the locker rooms, just like your parents did.”
Furrfu.
Unknown Quantity 0
Reality, in Republican circles.
Mean Streets 0
Unstable Isotope finds a Beckian guide to Washington, D. C.
It’s–oh, never mind. Just take a gander. It panders to the xenophobes and the haters speaks for itself.
Apparently, It’s Only All Right If You’re White (Updated) 0
John Cole has the video.
It appalls, but it does not surprise.
When you unleash bigotry, you get bigotry.
Addendum:
An update at Balloon Juice.
Afterthought: If this sort of stuff doesn’t make you really really ashamed of America and Americans, I grieve for you, for you Just Don’t Get It.
Cuccinelli Witchhunt Updates (Updated) 0
Virginia Attorney-General Cuccinelli continues his attempt to entangle a scientist in court proceedings because the AG does not like the science.
I didn’t like 10th grade biology teacher.
Why didn’t I think of suing Mr. Turner?
Addendum:
The Shockoe Literary Messenger has news of the next Koo-Koo-Koo-Croosade.
Facebook Frolics II 0
(Link fixed.)
Check those privacy settings.
(snip)
Talvitie-Siple told the Patriot-Ledger that she did not realize the page was a public one.