Tag Archives: dumbassery

Darwin Award Nominee?

I wonder if the guy who was killed by a tiger at the SF Zoo is eligible for this year’s Darwin Awards? He was 17, so minors probably don’t qualify. SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) — The father of a teen who was killed by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo questioned the facility’s safety on Thursday, as police reportedly …

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Orangina And A Brick Wall

How to fake an attack: December 19, 2007 — This Ivy Leaguer did a bang-up job giving himself a beating. Francisco Nava, the Princeton junior who said he was attacked because of his conservative political leanings, only to confess that the wounds were self-inflicted, has revealed exactly how he gave himself a concussion, swollen jaw and cuts all over his …

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Cover Your Ears

The Twelve Days Of Christmas, from the National Republican Senatorial Committee. (Via – Daimeon @ Pam’s House Blend.)

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Wingnut Dumbassery, Vol. 23,987

Idaho JMG reader Allen sends us this bit of nonsense from Boise, in which the Idaho chapter of the American Family Association accuses Alaska Airlines of adding a “surcharge for being sexually normal” because their micro-site for LGBT travelers offers a 10% discount on flights to Puerto Vallarta and New York City. “If you’re an ordinary heterosexual, once again be …

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My Magnetic Underwear

Yesterday I set off the theft sensors in almost every store I visited. After the third or fourth time of opening my bags to prove I wasn’t a shoplifter, it began to really bug me and I said something rather unkind to the guard at Home Depot. And then this morning I noticed tiny magnetic stickers on the waistbands of …

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Welcome Wagon

Monday, 9pm, IM conversation…..Friend Of Joe: Hey neighbor!JMG: Hey. Neighbor? You moved?FOJ: Yup, my sister and I just moved to the UES.JMG: Cool! Where?FOJ: You know that hi-rise over Bed Bath & Beyond?JMG: Sure, fancy building.FOJ: Yeah, it’s great. Super convenient.JMG: Right, you’ve got BBB in the lobby and that giant Food Emporium next door. A queen’s dream. 🙂FOJ: And …

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Karma Kameelians

Local Buddhists went to Chinatown and purchased $7000 worth of live eels, turtles, and frogs and then set them free in the Passaic River – in the hopes of improving their karma. The New Jersey EPA will be rebalancing their karmic windfall with a $1000 fine for releasing non-native species into an open environment. Existence is suffering. For idiots, especially …

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