Stupidity and a Blind Willingness to Embrace the Wildly Improbable
Oprah Winfrey, along with other celebrities, has just had to deny having been arrested for sex trafficking. Occam's Razor is sometimes overused (with unintentional irony) but it should certainly apply to one of the fundamental dilemmas of our time: the willingness of many people to believe the unlikely. Occam's principle suggests, to paraphrase, that "the...
ALEX JONES REALIZES HIS FANS ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO BUY FAKE CORONAVIRUS CURES FROM HIM
'Alex Jones claimed on his radio show last week that his Silverblue toothpaste "kills the whole SARS-corona family at point-blank range," according to a news release on Thursday by New York Attorney General Letitia James.' Alex Jones is of course the bellowing, cocaine-stoked radio babbler who convinced tens of thousands of gullible chumps that mass shootings, as...
HOW BIG DO OUR PICKUPS AND SUVs HAVE TO BE BEFORE WE REALIZE WE ARE RIDICULOUS?
Bigger and bigger SUVs, pickups are outgrowing home garages, public parking spaces -- USA Today didn't really need to tell us. We can look around and see it, especially here in the suburbs. Those glossy metal eyesores are everywhere. How big is too big? Are we totally blind to seeing how ludicrous these monstrosities are?...
TELEVANGELIST SELLS FAKE CURE FOR CORONAVIRUS ON TV – ONLY $125.00! ARE YOU STUPID ENOUGH TO BUY IT?
We were just talking about the return of con artist evangelist Jim Bakker--and now he's using his show and website to sell a fake "cure" for coronavirus. A woman named Sherill Sellmann who likes to call herself a doctor--she isn't--suggested on Jim Bakker's show that a product sold on Bakker's website might be effective at...