There is a scene in the movie Office Space where the main character tells his therapist that his life sucks and every day is worse than the last. His therapist thinks about this and responds, “That would mean that every day is the worst day of your life.”
I bring this up because I feel like every day I read the stupidest thing I’ve ever read. And this somehow is troubling to me.
So, what’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever read?
Well, the feelings are mutual. Aside from Will, I’ll nominate this little number:
~Charles Koch
i commented on this yesterday, although it wasn’t reading but hearing.
yesterday it was Cokie Roberts commenting, unchallenged on NPR’s Morning Swill, that a plastic surgery health benefit for police is “outrageous”: apparently cokie doesn’t read the news, since she’s obviously never heard the phrase “police officer shot in the face”. Ofcourse, looking at Cokie, who’s my dad’s age but looks like she’s my age, plastic surgery refers only to face lifts.
Then I heard one of WNJN’s talking meatsticks commenting on a story about some family that reneged on a reward for a tip that led to the arrest of the guy that murdered their daughter. “if people don’t pay the rewards, that means a lot fewer people are going to be willing to help in these cases.” You see, everyone’s a self-interested right-wing douche who’s motivated solely by “what’s in it for me.”
I was research director for an international chemical company in the ’90s and while at an annual meeting my boss, a true backwoods Georgia redneck was being badgered by the CEO about meeting his projected sales who then slammed his fist down on the table and shouted “We’ll make quota….by September 31!”
I leaned over to him and whispered “Jacky, September has only 30 days” He then muttered “goddammit” and pronouned “Make that October first,” watching the entire room collapse in laugher.
A site found here.
Ack! Why did you put that there? You know I can’t unread something I just read. Now it taints my brain forever. Thanks a lot.
Wow, that blog has 10 front page posts, most of which are months old. On those 10 posts, there are a total of 3 comments.
On Obama’s India Trip
and rounding out the pack, the very deep observation on the post Rocking The Town Halls.
3) Nice post — thanks for sharing.
Now that’s some elevated discourse!
When I ponder your question I realize that trying to isolate something as “the stupidest thing ever” is probably a cosmic impossibility, especially in today’s climate.
All I can probably do to try and keep the stupidity in perspective is to defer to George Carlin:
“Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!”
That pretty much sums up the situation, I think. Depressing, isn’t it?
Wait a minute, let me turn on the news…
Pretty much anything written by “Gateway Pundit” Jim Hoft. Just when you think he’s reached Peak Stoopit, he outdoes himself. Every fucking day.
Like peak wingnut, the stupidest thing ever said will never be achieved, or at least not for more than a nanosecond. But this is close. Mike Huckabee:
“.if you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different than ours because he probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather.”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/03/huckabee-asserts-hes-not-a-bir.html
Whoa! The Huckster is trying to out-stupid Sarah Palin. And he succeeded!
Whoever thought to do this
Interesting mental exercise. Like looking for hay in a haystack.
Every day’s a new adventure.
So, what’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever read?
Pretty much anything by any GOPer that has lived after Fightin’ Bob LaFollette(and his family) and not named Dwight Eisenhower.
“that’s messed up”
There seems to be no limit to stupidity in Republican politics, for sure.