Too Stupid for Words category archive

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.

Don’t care, although, every day this week, my local rag has devoted an entire half page, with lots of white space that could have included, you know, sentences and paragraphs, to previews of the World Cup.

I’m not one to follow a sports event just because it’s eventing.

Guess I’d just as soon see them waste the space on soccer (Association Football, that is) as on NASCAR. Either way the paper soaks up spilled coffee.

Apparently, not everyone shares my apathy.

Some seem to think that Soccer is a librul plot.

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But, being the Wall Street Journal, it denies it in the same breath.

It is generally not a good idea to threaten elected officials. Tea bagger armchair revolutionaries are starting to realize this:

A Michigan man and his son are facing federal charges for allegedly threatening the life of congressman Bart Stupak over the Democrat’s recent support of the health care reform bill. In a letter addressed to “Stupak family” and mailed to the politician’s former residence, Russell Hesch, 73, allegedly threatened to paint a local bridge with the blood of Stupak and his family members, according to the below FBI affidavit.

A. Parents.

Becomes shark bait.

It’s just as reprehensible as if it had been said by David Duke.

You tax dollars at work:

Authorities have charged five teenagers in a sexting case at Franklin County High School.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Cliff Hapgood says the charges include felony counts of using cell phones to possess and transmit pornography involving minors.

Hapgood says a female student took pictures of herself with a male student’s cell phone in a bathroom at the high school. The male student then sent pictures to other students.

More stupid at the link.

One hopes the parents have heard of this case.

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Blag Hag has the details.

It is truly quite stupid for grown-ups to pretend that sex doesn’t exist.

I know. Your parents didn’t have sex and neither did mine. They were different.

But everyone else’s parents did.

Boy shoots loaded school bus:

The unidentified 14-year-old was arrested Thursday morning. Police spokesman Don Gotthardt said investigators are trying to determine whether the teen intended to shoot the bus. He said the working theory is that the boy had been shooting at birds.

This happened in the Bailey’s Crossroads area in Northern Virginia, a densely populated old suburb. A .22 calibre bullet, if I remember my readings in Boys Life accurately, can carry at least a mile.

Newsweek recently ran a review of a play.

The reviewer didn’t like the play. For all I know, it was a lousy play. But the reviewer went a step into fantasy land in claiming that

While it’s OK for straight actors to play gay (as Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger did in Brokeback Mountain), it’s rare for someone to pull off the trick in reverse.

This has caused a lot of ferment.

What elevates this into the “Too Stupid for Words” category is that gay actors have been playing straight roles convincingly for years. (The same can’t be said in reverse because, until recently, about the time of La cage aux folles, teh gay was unmentionable and officially did not exist in filmdom.)

Anyone ever hear of Rock Hudson, just to pull a name out of a hat?

No wonder Newsweek is going belly up. It apparently has no competent editors.