Month: January 2020

Trump's Pentacostal/dominionist/prosperity-Christianity advisor, Paula White, "delivered remarks during a sermon in which she inveighed against a variety of forces, including anyone who sought to harm Trump." She called on the Lord to "command all satanic pregnancies to miscarry right now." A spittle-spraying anti-abortionist, she apparently thinks abortions are cool if they're induced by prayer. She's...

Dad had a gun in his pocket when he was playing with his toddler. Wrestling in fun. Accidentally triggered, the gun went off, shooting both the dad and the toddler. The child is in critical condition. That one just happened two days ago--but google "toddler shot when" as I did and you'll come across, "Mother...

"TikTok users are dipping their testicles in soy sauce 'to taste it,' but testes don't have tastebuds".   This seems to be for real. Here's more from Science Alert: "People have been putting soy sauce on their testicles to see whether their nether parts can detect the salty condiment, and recording their reactions for the benefit...

This is a story about a) tech company arrogance, b) the "shareholder value" philosophy of business, and c) the misrepresentation of shitty business decisions and poor quality control as "technological necessities" or "the way technology works." One day, all my outgoing email started bouncing and I got these bounce messages saying they had identified spam...

You probably saw the story-- "former Drexel University professor faces criminal charges after allegedly stealing $185,000 in research grant money," using much of it at a strip club. Sure, it's proverbial, everyone knows about this phenomenon. "Thinking with the little head" and so on. Remember four star general David Petraeus--also former head of the CIA--pleading...

"Britain's Harry and Meghan will give up some of their titles and intend to pay back some housing expenses, palace say" is a big fat headline at Washington Post. And the same thing is reported feverishly at CNN, NBCnews, and so on. This newest hot headline comes after an already extensive spate of reportage on...

"An enraged ex-husband has asked an Iowa court to grant his motion for a 'trial by combat' so he and his former partner can settle their differences like a pair of Game of Thrones characters," says the Daily News. Apparently he wanted a "Game of Thrones style" fight with her and her lawyer. He went...

Why is it acceptable to rankly deceive stupid people into sending money for, well, crap? Yes, there are laws against some scams, but a great many others are accepted as business as usual. I got some junk mail today in an official-seeming brown envelope designed to look it came from the federal government. A picture...

Some kinds of stupidity have deadly-serious consequences. Anti-vaxxer parents are using Facebook to organize "Pox Parties". The Daily Dot reports, "Facebook pages of anti-vaxxer communities are seeing parents organizing 'old-school 'pox parties' as a means of 'vaccinating' their children without giving them the vaccination. The practice used to be common, until a vaccine for the...

Wallowing in the moral stupidity we've all come to expect from Facebook, the Zuckerberg Zoo has admitted making a sweet financial deal with Teen Vogue magazine to deceive readers into thinking they're reading a real news article praising FB for its heroism when it fact it was a cynically manufactured puff piece. And, really, it...