Too Stupid for Words category archive

Freedom of

• speech,
• the press,
• religion,
• the press,

and, most dear of all, freedom of rude:

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the talk show host who recently apologized for saying the N-word 11 times to a caller on the air, said Tuesday she plans to give up her radio show when her contract is up at the end of this year.

The conservative advice maven made the announcement on CNN’s “Larry King Live,” saying she wants to “regain her First Amendment rights.”

Words fail me.

West Chester Police Det. Stan Billie testified that he received a call on July 1 from a 20-year-old woman who had accused Adams of raping her the night before. She had seen a posting on Adams’ Facebook page offering $500 for “a girls head” and feared for her safety, Billie testified.

The detective testified that he went to Adams’ home and that Adams agreed to meet with him at the police station. Less than 10 minutes later, Adams posted a second Facebook message that “he needed this girl knocked off right now,” Billie testified.

I doubt seriously that anyone will confuse a Godly effort with Best Buy:

Father Luke Strand at the Holy Family Parish in Fond Du Lac says he has received a cease-and-desist letter from the electronics retailer (Best Buy–ed.).

At issue is Strand’s black Volkswagen Beetle with door stickers bearing the name “God Squad” in a logo similar to that of Best Buy’s Geek Squad, a group of electronics troubleshooters.

Afterthought:

I wonder what the Mod Squad people have to say about this.

Excerpt: “Physics is a liberal plot . . . .”

Via TPM.

Bicyles unAmerican:

I must be surrounded by unAmericans, because a lot folks in these parts seem to like their bikes.

Afterthought:

And you wonder why they put the “nut” in “wingnut.”

Via TPM.

Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up.

But Conservapedia founder and Eagle Forum University instructor Andy Schlafly — Phyllis Schlafly’s son — has found one more liberal plot: the theory of relativity.

I guess all those nuclear power plants aren’t really producing electricity after all.

Furrfu.

Jockeying for position.

Charges are pending.

According to police, an 18-year-old woman was text messaging on a cell phone when she lost control of her vehicle and crashed into an electric pole, cutting it off at the bottom.

In other news, old men with dirty minds acting silly.

This Babe Ruth coach won’t be back next year:

Following a call in favor of Sonoma in the seventh inning, the Vallejo team’s coach reportedly approached the first-base umpire. The coach, said the grandmother of one Sonoma players, had already received a warning earlier in the game. Then the umpire said “you’re out of here” to the coach, she added.

“The coach blind-sided the umpire,” said the grandmother, who asked to have her name withheld for fear of retaliation. “He went out like a piece of cardboard. Then his legs started vibrating. … it appeared that he couldn’t get up for 10 minutes.”

In Colorado.

When I worked at Amtrak, we did not find the idea of the persons inside our trains being subjected to this at all amusing.

So he’s looking for a new job.

How did he do in the NBA championship this year?

Instead of getting married in a church or banquet hall, more couples are choosing their favorite retail spots as the backdrop for their special day. The shops range from T.J. Maxx to Taco Bell, and they all combine the couple’s love for a brand with a desire to have a wedding with a personal twist, says Rebecca Dolgin, executive editor of theknot.com.

Furrfu.

Most of the headlines I’ve seen are describing this as a “flub” or something similar.

It should more accurately be labeled a “realization,” as the writer at the link points out.

From the state government who put the “fun” in dysfunctional: Ever notice how Republicans try to stick it to employees when the elected representatives fail to do their jobs?

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has ordered some 200,000 state workers to be paid the minimum wage because no budget has been passed.

The state controller is refusing to carry out the directive. Details at the link.

As a follow-up to this morning’s post on hot pursuit, . . .

State police say a 29-year-old Framingham driver tried and failed to strike a grandfather and his grandson after the elderly man asked him to turn down is loud music and stop using foul language in Boston, triggering a police chase westbound on the Massachusetts Turnpike.

He crashed his car, injuring no third parties, and the cops ran him down.

I expect that he’ll be lucky not to be charged with attempted murder and given an offer to plea to attempted manslaughter.

The scary thing is that they seem to have drunk their own Kool-Aid.

It’s not campaign rhetoric. It’s how they see the world.

Via The Richmonder.

Zero sense:

A Coventry (Rhode Island–ed.) boy says he was banned from wearing a patriotic hat he created to honor members of the armed forces because his school said it violated school policy.

It has guns.

Addendum, Later That Week:

The school is reviewing the policy.

Six-packs optional:

A General District Court judge convicted a bank assistant vice president Tuesday on charges of recklessly handling a firearm and public intoxication during a dispute over a downtown parking space.

Scott P. Ferguson, 34, was accused of pointing a shotgun at a man after he stopped in a metered parking space along the street near Ferguson’s home in the 400 block of E. Freemason St.

According to the write-up, Mr. Ferguson seemed to think that the “metered” (that is, public) parking space was his wife’s personal property and that he was defending it from rustlers.

Not DUI. All the seats in the passenger compartment were taken:

(Sheriif’s Deputy–ed.) Key asked the driver, Fiona Enderby, 32, what was in the trunk.

A goat, Enderby told her.

And that’s what Key found when the lid was opened. The animal, a male of unknown age, had its legs tied and was panting heavily. The temperature in the compartment — tested about 10 minutes after the trunk was opened — reached 94 degrees, according to a news release issued Monday by the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office. It was unclear how long the goat had been in there.