Standing outside lecture hall yesterday, waiting for last class to exit so we could go in. Two young men stood nearby and this is the part of their straight-faced conversation I heard:
Genius #1: Yeah! It’s fucked up! You can shoot yourself and anyone else you want in Texas, and you won’t [...]
Surely you’ve heard by now of the Wal-Mart employee in Long Island who was trampled to death by the crowd when the doors opened on Friday. Because people are so eager to start celebrating the birth of Jesus, after all. Right?
Malkin says the Black Friday phenomenon is insane, Morrissey calls [...]
Another bit of research into why we are so screwed: Americans Fail a Basic Test on Their History and Institutions.
To sum it up for you, most Americans are dumb, including most college graduates. But especially elected officials.
People were asked basic civic literacy questions, and here are some results:
Seventy-one percent of Americans fail the test, [...]
That contested ballot I posted a pic of earlier? Ha. Only the tip of the ‘tardburg. And it’s not just Franken’s people who are clinically insane, either. Here’s a whole grab-bag of them (via Hot Air), and you can even vote on who you think the ballot is for. My [...]
I never know if posts about stories like this are going to cause big fights in the comment thread or make people tell me I’m full of shit because I don’t have kids and thus should shut up, but that never stopped me before so here goes.
A Des Moines mother says she is “mortified” by [...]
I was driving along a busy freeway a few hours ago when I came upon a traffic jam. The left lane slowed to a crawl and everyone was cramming into the right lane. Using my awesome powers of deduction and foresight, I decided to follow the herd and do the same.
I [...]
If you’re new here, I went back to college this fall as a degreed undergrad to take some science classes I need to get into grad school. These are freshman chemistry and sophomore biology at a decent 4-year university. I like to bitch about my classmates because I’m 36 years old and impatient [...]
