Quote of the Day
"When you say per capita, there's many per capitas. Is this like per capita relative to what?" - Trump...
“Hydroxychloroquine works like magic”
The President announced he was taking hydroxychloroquine, and just like magic, the press were struck dumb and couldn't talk about anything else for the rest of the day. The Trump Family Trust has a small investment in the company that makes hydroxychloroquine. The fact that it's a minor investment has prompted Breitbart and others to...
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...
Trump’s INCREDIBLY STUPID Undermining of Pandemic Response & his Lying About the Danger Puts Your Life At Risk
The Trump White House reduced "$15 billion in national health spending and cutting the global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC, DHS, and HHS. And the government's $30 million Complex Crises Fund was eliminated." All this was basically a "Obama did it so we don't want it" penny-pinching move.... "In May 2018, Trump ordered...
DEATH BY DOUBLE STUPIDITY: FLAT EARTH BELIEVER DIES TRYING TO PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT
Flat Earth theorist "Mad" Mike Hughes dies in rocket crash -- we are not making this up: trying to prove the Earth was flat, Mike Hughes went up in a HOMEMADE rocket to try to prove the Earth is flat, said rocket crashing with him in it, killing him. He was taking pictures to try...
WHY WOULD ANYONE BE STUPID ENOUGH TO WANT MORE MORE MERCURY IN THE AIR THEY BREATHE?
As Trump's 'Environmental Protection Agency prepares to finalize the latest in a long line of rollbacks, the nation's power sector has sent a different message: Thanks, but no thanks. Exelon, one of the nation's largest utilities, told the EPA that its effort to change a rule that has cut emissions of mercury and other toxins...
PERPETUAL TELEVANGELIST SCAMS POINT UP DEEP STUPIDITY IN SOME SECTORS OF AMERICA. It never ends!
Jim Bakker is back on TV and--that in itself is amazing. Does no one remember this guy? I mean--how stupid ARE we? Consider: As was widely reported, Bakker-- pioneering Prosperity Christianity televangelist and husband of legendary eccentric Tammy Faye Bakker--secretly paid Jessica Hahn hush money after he raped her, stole money supposed to go to...
Religion And Desperation Make You Stupider: An Example, The Oil-Drippin’ Bible!
"Chemical analysis tests gathered by the Times Free Press challenge the basis of a popular Dalton, Georgia, ministry that claims to have a Bible flowing with oil." Mineral oil, that is. These here fellas have a Bible miraculously flowing with it! "Each week, hundreds of people come to Dalton's Wink Theater to see the Bible...
THE INCREDIBLY STUPID WILLINGNESS TO BELIEVE DISINFORMATION (JUST BECAUSE IT SOUNDS EXCITING) MAY BE A THREAT TO YOUR LIFE
OHHHHH so many examples. SO VERY VERY MANY. Millions of Americans now seem to have no ability to tell a crackpot news site from a reputable one. Many of us are apparently stupid enough to believe any website that claims to be authentic journalism regardless of the wild ludicrousness of its claims. Because--there are pictures!...
White House Stupidity Threatens to Spread Pandemic in the USA
As reported in October-- Trump WH Cuts All Funding For Program Meant To Prevent The Next Viral Pandemic--the Trump administration has been busily working to make us all more vulnerable to the Coronavirus. Not on purpose. It was just... Stupid. You know, something stupid they did. The Guardian has just reported: "US preparedness to deal...