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Gay Marriage: I Just Don't Get It

Joe Peacock | Posted 03.30.2013 | Weird News
Joe Peacock

Give me reasons. Give me plausible, fact-based logical reasons why homosexuals shouldn't be allowed to bond themselves in legal union and share their lives.

Mr. Akin and the Apocalypse of the Republican Mind

Nina Burleigh | Posted 10.22.2012 | Politics
Nina Burleigh

An Akin can only rise when it no longer matters in political debate whether there are facts on one side and falsities on the other.

Stupid Me

Waldo Mellon | Posted 08.21.2012 | Comedy
Waldo Mellon

Dear Waldo, I said the stupidest thing ever to this guy I think is terrific, and now I'm afraid he must think I'm stupid. My question is, how do you ...

The Creative Value of Stupidity

Brian D. Cohen | Posted 04.07.2012 | Arts
Brian D. Cohen

Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel concluded that we humans just might be infinitely stupid. That might explain what's special, even most hopeful about us.

Study Finds Conservatives Are Morons

Floyd Elliot | Posted 03.27.2012 | Comedy
Floyd Elliot

Good news, social conservatives: according to a new study, you're not bad people; you're just stupid. And also? Racists. Fox News: at long last explai...

"Stupid Crook Tricks: Global Dumbing"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 07.26.2011 | Comedy
Jerry Zezima

The crook told the cabbie to ask a cop for directions. The cop recognized the idiotic passenger from a surveillance tape and arrested him. For once a man asked for directions and look what happened.

TSA Protects America by Groping My...Poodle

Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Robert L. Cavnar

If you have been reading the news the last couple of weeks, you know that we have been covering the new enhanced (read "illegal") searching and gropin...

Newsweek Poll: Is The Tide Turning?

Frank Dwyer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Frank Dwyer

What? Stupidity, lies, vicious policies now hurting GOP?...

The Genius of Democracy; or, Boy, Does Uncle Sam Need You!

Frank Dwyer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Frank Dwyer

Voters fed up with lesser may try greater of two evils again....

Social Media: Are We Ever Going to "Get it?"

Peter Shankman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Peter Shankman

I spent a day last week speaking to a Fortune 100 company about the best ways to integrate social media into their marketing plans. These are smart people. But you say "social media" to them, and you have the ability to lead them around by waving a shiny object.

Tea Party Animals

Ellis Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Ellis Weiner

Time and again we get variations on one of two themes: Indignation about things that are demonstrably not true, or open and defiant disbelief at things that demonstrably are true.

Acting Dippy on Blippy

Patrice Peyret | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Patrice Peyret

People sacrifice their privacy for financial gain on a regular basis. This trade-off is the foundation of loyalty cards. Every day, I allow SafeWay to...

How Not to Work a Cocktail Party

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

People who make a lot of money tend to talk about it too much to people who don't. Why do people do these things? Do we all, to some extent, undermine ourselves in one way or another?

The KFC Double Down: One Sandwich To Kill You All (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Mark Morford | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Mark Morford

Behold, the KFC Double Down sandwich. It is, if you really want to know, two slabs of fried chicken intersliced with two pieces of bacon, two slabs of cheese, and the Colonel's "special sauce."

Wing-Nut Tea

Susan L. Travis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Susan L. Travis

These are interesting and difficult times for all Americans, though the predicament of our Republican brothers and sisters bears special reflection.

Boehner's Four Horsemen

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jeff Danziger

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Crack Law: Not only Cruel and Racist, But Scientifically Wrong

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Maia Szalavitz

For years, those concerned with fairness in America have been distressed by the alarming racial disparities seen in the criminal justice system. Curr...

Apparently, You CAN Fool All of the People All of the Time

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Brian Ross

We are a fear-driven culture. There is a large segment of the population that, no matter how well you document it, will not let a good fact get in the way of their fears about health care reform.

Occidental College Offers Course In Stupidity

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

We honestly don't know what's funnier the class title or the hyper-deconstructionist language used in the course description. Only in the bubble of th...

Ba(ra)ck to the Word "Stupid"

Karen Kisslinger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Karen Kisslinger

One meaning of the word stupid relates to being "stupefied." By its definition, I think Crowley and Gates were probably both stupefied by the situation that escalated in the Professor's home.

The Stupidity of Crowds

Bart Motes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Bart Motes

Who knew that NPR listeners and the GOP had so much in common?

Are Americans Still Stupid?*

Rick Shenkman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Rick Shenkman

Misinformation is as apt to be swallowed by people as factual information. More troubling, voters don't seem to know where to turn for reliable information.

Stupid Republican Tricks

Senate Guru | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Senate Guru

We worry that some Republicans are too influenced by greed or fear or hatred. However, some Republicans are just mind-numbingly stupid.

A Suggestion for Obama: RE: Jets Flying Past NYC Buildings

Jacob Dickerman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Jacob Dickerman

Okay, Barack. That wasn't you. Okay. I'll accept that, because I like you. I'll go along with this not being on your head thing. But here's a little thought you might want to pass along to your staff.

Bull Dinky From National Geographic

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Stephen C. Rose

The Religion Code is a little piece I did a while back to flag the shameful pandering of mass media in dealing with Christian themes. Religion in itse...