Entries Tagged as 'Stupid Shit'
Daily Hackery
April 23rd, 2008 · 7 Comments
Tags: Journalism & the Media · Stupid Shit
College Student Discovers Racism in Constitution, Vows Meaningless Action
April 17th, 2008 · 7 Comments
The day isn’t over, but I’m willing to go out on a limb and predict that this is the stupidest thing I will read today. I’m not actually sure what it would mean to “strike” text that has already been nullified by subsequent amendments—pull out the original sheepskin and take a sharpie to it? Bonus [...]
Tags: Stupid Shit
Chutzpah Award
March 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment
…goes to Cliff May for trying to convince us that there’s something Orwellian about the opponents of massive and unaccountable government surveillance of Americans.
Tags: Privacy and Surveillance · Stupid Shit
We Don’t Read Much, Do We?
March 6th, 2008 · 6 Comments
The latest chapter in the hilarious misadventures of Concerned Woman for America Matt Barber involves blowing a fuse over an Illinois high school’s addition of the Tony- and Pulitzer-award winning play Angels in America to their curriculum. Though Barber avers that it “takes a lot” to shock him, he writes (emphasis mine):
The book is replete [...]
Tags: Academia · Language and Literature · Law · Stupid Shit
Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That
March 5th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Glenn Reynolds:
HMM: Rep. Ellison: Clinton Trying To Reap Benefit Of Obama-Muslim Smear. “I think that Barack Obama’ s Democratic opponents will say and do anything to try and win.” Well, yes.
But why does Ellison think calling someone a Muslim is a “smear”? If somebody called me a Muslim, I wouldn’t feel smeared, [...]
Tags: Horse Race Politics · Sociology · Stupid Shit
Video Fisking
February 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments
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Statements You Know Are False Even Before You Click
February 23rd, 2008 · 5 Comments
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I Surrender to the Inevitable
October 22nd, 2007 · 4 Comments
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Shorter Zuzu
October 21st, 2007 · No Comments
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Stupidest Thing I Read Today: John Rawls Edition
July 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments
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