Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. – William Hazlitt
12 Mar 2010 No Comments
in Signs of the Horsemen, Technology, Uhm... yeah, Web Tags: cruft, idiocy, rss, slashdot
Slashdot recently began embedding this ridiculous comment section in their RSS feed. To get rid of it, add this to your favorite ad blocking extension:
http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&id=*
I’ll click through if I feel the need to read or spend karma.
19 Aug 2009 No Comments
in Made Me Laugh, Politics Tags: Barney Frank, cults, idiocy, Politics, townhall
If only more politicians would tell these idiots off. The thought process that leads anyone to equate any President with Hitler surely is a process which only bolsters the need for more coverage in this country. Obviously, we are not servicing the mental health needs of our fellow citizens.
18 Mar 2009 No Comments
in Entertainment Tags: CNBC, Daily Show, finance, idiocy, Jeff Zucker, Jon Stewart
“Just because someone who mocks authority says something doesn’t make it so,” Zucker said, describing the comedian’s comments as “completely out of line.”
Listen, I get it, you want to defend your network. But don’t go after Stewart. It’s not that he can’t take it or is above criticism, but this is not the fight you want to pick.
Face it: CNBC completely missed the point about what business news is supposed to be about. You don’t pump stocks, you analyze the market. Jim Cramer is not to blame. You are to blame, Mr. Zucker. You’re the one who shaped the strategic vision of a network who can’t spell “journalism”, much less execute it.
I look forward to watching you and your network continue to be lambasted and embarrassed on Comedy Central, because you just hung a huge target out there for Stewart and Co. to take shots at.
20 Dec 2008 No Comments
in Michigan, News Tags: brighton, civics, idiocy
I’ll let this one introduce itself.
The Brighton City Council on Thursday approved an ordinance allowing police in the Livingston County community to ticket and fine anyone who is annoying in public “by word of mouth, sign or motions.”
Welcome to West Michigan-style legislation. As J– called it, this is a bunch of fuddy-duddies grumping over “those damned kids”, but moving their crotchetiness into civics.
A city attorney says there could be situations where the measure would violate freedom of speech…
Yah think? I can’t wait for some well-funded smart-ass to walk around Brighton screaming Blessings From God at passerbys, just to get cited, and then sue the friggen pants off the city. What a bunch of dumb-ass, over-bearing, holier-than-thou bull this is.
Feels just like my hometown.
04 Dec 2008 2 Comments
in Michigan Tags: automobiles, bailouts, GM, hybrids, idiocy
*Facepalm* Apparently, they didn’t learn nearly as much as they could have last time.
The fact that Wagoner didn’t drive one from Detroit, but apparently had it shipped to Washington in order to drive the last few miles, may be an indication that the Volt program has a long was to go to keep its promises. [emphasis mine]
I understand it can’t make the trip, but isn’t that sort of the point as to why the US auto makers can’t compete? Seriously, GM (and Ford, Chevy, and Chrysler), how many times can you miss the point?
GM CEO Drives a Chevy Volt to Washington…Sort Of – U.S. News Rankings and Reviews.
08 Aug 2008 2 Comments
in Michigan Tags: idiocy, Kwame
This farce has gone on long enough. The damage this mayor is doing goes beyond Detroit, affecting the reputation and stature of the entire state. Governor Granholm, remove the mayor now.
Mr. White, testified that he suffered a fractured hip after being shoved into his partner by Mr. Kilpatrick, who played football in college. Mr. White also said that Mr. Kilpatrick, who is black, had criticized his partner for working on the case and told her that as a black woman, “You shouldn’t even be riding in a car with a guy named White.”
Notice that this is in the New York Times. We’re a laughing stock. The time has come to end this parade of arrogance.
Detroit Mayor Charged With Assaulting Officer – NYTimes.com.
01 Aug 2008 No Comments
in Politics Tags: idiocy, Obama, Politics
Seriously, this is what Rupert Murdoch is going to do to the Wall Street Journal?
But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and 32% is obese, could Sen. Obama’s skinniness be a liability? Despite his visits to waffle houses, ice-cream parlors and greasy-spoon diners around the country, his slim physique just might have some Americans wondering whether he is truly like them.
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“I won’t vote for any beanpole guy,” another Clinton supporter wrote last week on a Yahoo politics message board.
What? WHAT?! This cannot be in the (formerly) well-respected Wall Street Journal. This cannot be an actual issue in the election for the President of the United States. Shame on Amy Chozick, shame on the WSJ for running this yellow journalism. And shame on us for ever allowing something like this to get traction.
If you think this is anywhere near to being a consideration for who you should vote for, you’re an idiot. Sure, you should consider the health of the candidate, but make it real health concerns, not someone’s height. If anything, maybe we shouldn’t vote for the guy who would become the oldest sitting President, if elected. Maybe the WSJ’s efforts would have been better spent talking about potential Vice Presidential candidates.
Better yet, let’s weigh the candidates on issues, ask them the hard questions (and demand answers), pin them down on positions we’ve allowed them to squirm away from with double-speak.
But this kind of crap is beneath the WSJ. Or, at least it was until Murdoch and Co. took over. It appears now, voters will have to wade through another Fox News-like medium to get to real stories.
Update: It just gets better and better. The “source” for the earth-shattering story about whether Obama is too fit to be elected? A Yahoo message board response (Google cache of the thread). Read the non-cached version for the deserved mockery and derision that follows.
14 Apr 2008 No Comments
in Politics, Science, Signs of the Horsemen Tags: comics, creationists, evolution, expelled, idiocy, movies
Since I talked about it before, and a CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE EVOLUTIONARY APPARATUS DIRECTIVE exists, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point of that Expelled has a new counter-site aggregating the awful reviews and accounts for and about the movie.
Oh, and Overcompensating has good comic up today as well.
21 Mar 2008 No Comments
in Politics, Science, Signs of the Horsemen Tags: creationists, Dawkins, evolution, Godwin, idiocy, movies
Slight backstory: There is a movie currently being screened for very select crowds called EXPELLED!, hosted by Ben Stein. It is, essentially, creationist propaganda about how colleges and universities are evil for promoting science and not religious dogma in their classes (here’s a trailer, if you have 8 minutes to sacrifice). It has, predictably, come under intense criticism from actual scientists for what it is; creationism dressed up as victimization. Yah know, the classical view that evolution is, as they say, the view that life is simply “mud animated by lightening.” The trailer even Godwin’s itself.
Anyway, as I said, they are screening this movie for very select audiences to build good grass-roots support for it. This basically means they hand-pick audiences of the Faithful to view the film or go to churches and show it there. They have been very wary of allowing anyone not on The List to see the film, which should send up red flags everywhere.
Last night, PZ Meyers, a biologist, associate professor at the University of Minnesota, and vocal critic of the creationist agenda, tried to see the film with his family. According to his blog, he registered for the event (as did everyone else attending), but was thrown out of line and then the theater property altogether before being able to enter the movie at the request of the producer.
The funny bit is who the producer (Mark Mathis) missed. You’d think that if one were so averse to allowing any potential critic into one’s movie, one would know all the major players to bar from one’s film. You’d be wrong because, although the producer knew Meyers, he didn’t know his friend, a friend who was able to enter and view the film. The friend? Richard Dawkins.
Yeah, good one guys. I bet your film is utter crap and I can’t wait for its vivisection.
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