A Chicago-area woman died last week after she injected her face with molten beef tallow in a botched attempt at home cosmetic procedures. Apparently, this was not the first time she had given herself the injections, which were meant to replicate the effects of Botox, but she managed to give herself peritonitis instead of that wrinkle-free brow.
I’m sure the Darwin Award people will short-list her immediately.
Required reading:
This Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin by Michael Joseph Gross hit the web yesterday. Let’s hope it does for her career what the VF profile of General Stanley McChrystal did for his.
Jane Mayer’s profile of the Kochs, David and Charles, in The New Yorker a couple of weeks ago also helps to put a little sunlight on the monsters behind the Tea Party. If nothing else, it shows that Rupert Murdoch isn’t the only evil supervillian trying to take over the world. Now we just need a real-life James Bond to take these motherfuckers out.
Matt Taibbi is up to his usual snuff with a Rolling Stone post about the recent primary elections and the influence the Tea Party did and did not have on the outcome, and the insidious race-baiting of Murdoch’s FOX News.
Christopher Hitchens proves that he isn’t dead yet by giving the ol’ one-two to the Beckapalooza of last weekend. As infuriating as he is, we are going to sorely miss Hitch when he is gone. (If you’ve got the time, I also recommend this long video featuring interviews with teabaggers at the Beckapalooza for an up-close-and-personal look at the terminally stupid)
The always-funny “stupid customer” website Not Always Right.com had a little precautionary tale about what happens when teabaggers show up to vote.
And here’s a little history lesson about the origins of the Tea Party and its ilk:
The United States, locked in the kind of twilight disconnect that grips dying empires, is a country entranced by illusions. It spends its emotional and intellectual energy on the trivial and the absurd. It is captivated by the hollow stagecraft of celebrity culture as the walls crumble. This celebrity culture giddily licenses a dark voyeurism into other people’s humiliation, pain, weakness and betrayal. Day after day, one lurid saga after another, whether it is Michael Jackson, Britney Spears or John Edwards, enthralls the country … despite bank collapses, wars, mounting poverty or the criminality of its financial class.
Our country is certifiably psycho.
They tell us that correlation does not imply causation, but…
Educational Attainment of Americans, 1947-2003:
Demographic breakdown of results for the Marist College poll that found 25% of Americans were not sure what country the U.S. declared independence from:
¡Hola! Welcome to ¿Quién es más tonto? Here are today’s contestants!
Contestant Number One is Ermiyas Asfaw, who told a baggage handler at Logan Airport yesterday that he was “with Al Quaeda” and was here to “blow things up”.
Contestant Number Two is an unidentified Bosnian fellow who walked into the American Embassy in Vienna, Austria carrying a backpack bomb loaded with grenades, nails, and Islamic literature, then hoofed it when he set off the metal detector.
I’m thinking it’s Contestant Number One, personally. Contestant Number Two at least actually HAD a bomb, even if he didn’t have much of a plan.
Let’s also note that unlike the incident with the MIT student and the blinking sweatshirt a couple of weeks ago, this time the airport security folks didn’t go after him with guns at the ready. In fact, THEY LET HIM ON THE AIRPLANE.
So, maybe the REAL tonto isn’t Mr. Asfaw at all…
Really? Now we’re going to have to argue with these people about whether or not the Earth is flat?
I mean, sure, there’s the Flat Earth Society, but their tongues are so firmly planted in their cheeks that they can’t eat anything except soup. But have we really gotten to the point where the combination of stupidity, incuriousness, and religious denial has reach critical mass that someone can go on national television and say they don’t know for sure that the world is round?
I weep.
Okay, some of these stories are not new, and I suspect some of them aren’t even true, but this page has a pretty good collection of stories about the idiotic things people are capable of. I especially enjoyed the first one.
Strangly, there are no mentions of the TSA anywhere on that page. Maybe whoever put up that page is afraid of being blacklisted.
Comments:
Those are some gems.
Posted by shelley [URL] on 07/25/07
Can YOU spot the moron in this picture?
Not sure? How about if I told you that the woman holding that sign is protesting because her child is not being allowed to participate in graduation ceremonies because he failed to pass a skills assessment test required by the state of Texas for graduation? NOW can you spot the moron?
Comments:
Stupid tests…every state has ‘em and the failure to pass is not the fault of the parents or the kids. Leave No Child Behind, the initiative of moronic republicans.
Posted by Karan [URL] on 05/26/07
I think you need to look at the picture again.
Posted by Brian [URL] on 05/26/07
And that’s a two-fer: the improper word choice AND the fact that she’s holding the sign facing her. I wonder what it says on the other side.
Posted by Tony [URL] on 05/27/07
As someone who actually lives in Texas, I can attest that this sort of thing is more common than you might think- disturbingly so. Are kids are learnin’ real good…. :0)
Posted by Jack Cluth [URL] on 05/28/07
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