Kaci Hickox, a nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone but has tested negative for the virus, went for a bike ride on Thursday, defying Maine’s order that she be quarantined in her home and setting up a legal collision with Governor Paul LePage. Hickox has flaunted her defiance of the governor by…
Category: Stupidity
Fighting for 15
For some perspective, $15/hr is scarcely less than what new, degreed teachers earn at many school districts here in Texas. The low pay of teachers aside, it’s ridiculous to equate the value of these jobs in terms of wages. The fact is, flipping burgers and bagging fries are not skills. I’ve been there, done that,…
The Face of Stupidity
Want to see the poster-boy for asinine, mindless thug behavior? Look no further than this Candadian fool whose team lost game 7 of the Stanley Cup at home in Vancouver. Matt Gurney, a member of the editorial board for The National Post chain of newspapers, says the entire nation was embarrassed by the riots…
Principals, Principles, and Proper Policy
A student is being punished for her after-the-fact reporting of wrongdoing by her classmates. Obviously this is the wrong way for administrators to gain the trust of teenagers. Policies must be applied in conjunction with the exercise of judgment, not blindly. DAYTON, Ohio — A charter school student who said she saw two classmates having…
TSA Humor: First Body Cavity Search
Found as the background image on a TSA computer at the Indianapolis airport: Yeah, that’s REAL funny, jerks.
Amazon Taking Heat for Doing the Right Thing
Amazingly, Paul Carr of TechCrunch has come out against Amazon’s decision to remove a pedophiliac’s handbook from its e-shelves. His rationale? The same information is available elsewhere. This is exactly the sort of unprincipled non-think that has would-be intellectuals second-guessing the Cold War now that it’s over. Principles matter, Paul, and people in the media…
A Country Gone Mad
The United Kingdom is our parent country in many respects; however, it seems that our cousins across the Atlantic have gone mad, first with their kow-towing to Muslim extremism in their streets and now by actively seeking out – and presumedly correcting – racist toddlers: Teachers are being forced to report children as young as…
Gunman Dead at U. of Texas
A psycho gunman was loose on a college campus this A.M. and is believed to have committed suicide. A second armed perpetrator is alleged and the search is underway for this person. I’ve asked this question before, but what ever happened to the era of quiet desperation when the terminally insane simply shot themselves? What’s…
Cold Showers and How Sometimes Liberal Guilt is Hilarious
The overblown, self-important angst of some liberals is so stupid it’s painfully funny to watch. The cold shower to this humor is the knowledge that such people will occasionally act on their feelings, motivated by their self-inflicted guilt, and attempt to force their conclusions on the rest of us. The latest case in point comes…
Sometimes a Show is Just a Show
Sometimes I have to wonder why people think they need to have an opinion on everything. Case in point: A man took his wife to the theater in New York and the Republican National Convention felt it necessary to respond critically to this act of kindness because the man was Barack Obama.