Stupidity

Man berated for 'stupidity' at arson sentencing

7 Feb 2012

A 45-year-old man who set fire to a car after being teased has been sentenced to two years in jail in the District Court in Cairns in far north Queensland.

The Oldest Painting Ever; High Cancer Rates for 9/11 Heroes

7 Feb 2012

Discovered: The oldest painting ever, high cancer rates for 9/11 heroes, slang does not equal stupidity, spinning is literally like having a heart attack, the gender wage gap is getting better, faster.  The oldest painting ever. It's about love! Animal love! At least, this 43,500-year-old cave drawing looks like two fish making out to us. And we're going to stick with that interpretation because ...

The right's stupidity spreads, enabled by a too-polite left | George Monbiot

6 Feb 2012

Conservativism may be the refuge of the dim. But the room for rightwing ideas is made by those too timid to properly object Self-deprecating, too liberal for their own good, today's progressives stand back and watch, hands over their mouths, as the social vivisectionists of the right slice up a living society to see if its component parts can survive in isolation. Tied up in knots of reticence ...