On the surface, this woman should be my hero. She’s a David who has taken on the crass Goliath of the education industry. After all, schools, especially private ones, seem to promise the jobs of one’s dreams. Trina Thompson, however, has failed to procure hers, even after getting a degree and working with Monroe College‘s Career Services. What is a frustrated Oleanna of an alumna to do? Sue the bastards!
Posts Tagged: stupid people
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Mar 09
Just the Best and the Brightest
My friend Avril gave me this vid’s link in a comment to an earlier blog entry, and then we both posted it in our Facebook profiles.
This video makes me want to hide in shame as an American. I haven’t traveled that much, but come on! The news is now on the frakking web and most of it free! Also, how many of these people have paid attention in school? Most can’t point out countries on a map. Oh, and it gets better. Some can’t tell how many sides there are to a triangle. The reporter didn’t ask them something difficult, such as what is an isosceles or a hypoteneuse.
The attempts to tell the reporter who Tony Blair is—priceless!
A really fun one – they should try to identify the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. I’d let them think it’s Harriet Jones. 
I were the reporter, I’d ask them what cynical means. After all, I knew one person who didn’t know the meaning and he couldn’t be bothered to use the dictionary!
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Dec 08
Five Things: Go Away in 2009!
There are a few things I’d like to completely disappear or go away for good, but they won’t. These things are bothersome year after year, but I can only wish…
1. Stupidity
For the past few eight years, we have lived through an incredibly stupid era. It was definitely exemplified by George W Bu$h and his rhetoric, but it’s been expressed through some of his constituents (see Religious Right). American stupidity reigned supreme and any American abroad were ashamed and pretended to be Canadian instead. It’s difficult to believe that Americans are stuck in provincialism, bizarre religious concepts, and good old-fashioned bigotry. However, there seems to be an evolutionary imperative for the human race, especially the American subspecies, to remain stupid as the idiots keep having litters of children while smart people have few or no children at all.
2. The Religious Right
I’ve got to hand it to these people. They’ve been taking hit after hit in the past few years and they keep going. My admiration for them, however, ends there. They have engaged in a culture war against a great deal of the American population including women, racial minorities, gays and lesbians (major target), intellectuals, liberals, and common sense. While helping themselves to the freedom of speech and religion, they have sought to limit rights for women, gays, and minorities. Also, they have sought to reduce the quality of an American education and impose their religion upon non-Christian school children in the form of Creationist “science” or “Intelligent Design.” If they had their way, everyone would have to follow Old Testament type laws while they are free to wear mixted textiles and eat lobster.
One would think that a closeted, nelly queen of a mega-church pastor or several allied politicians such as a certain senator from Idaho being exposed for engaging in acts they sought to criminalize would send the Religious Right into shame and hiding. If that wasn’t enough, what about the numerous sexual and financial sins of some prominent clergy that has surfaced over the years. No matter, the faithful are either in denial or migrate to another bigot who mirror their views.
Religious right leaders, candy coating your tired, hateful rhetoric for a new generation doesn’t work. We can see right through it.
3. Financially Irresponsible Corporations
Why do the banks get a bailout package from the government? Why can’t I and every other citizen get the bailout instead of some insulting economic stimulus package? The money would have been better spent paying off all the student loans out there, putting some money back to banks at the banks at the same time. I’d say let the banks suffer, but this wasn’t put up for a popular vote.
Banks, you got our tax money, you better clean up your act. If it is put on the ballot, you can count on me to vote on nationalizing you.
4. Post-adolescent Celebrity Trainwrecks
Britney and sis, Paris Hilton, and Lindsay Lohan: All your drama in 2007 and 2008 has gotten old and tiresome. Get some dignity, please.
5. Homophobia
This should be number one on my list, but see Stupidity and Religious Right. This one affects me and a lot of other people on a very personal level. First of all, prejudice of any kind is never right. Many people still harbor bigotry towards minorities, but it is easy to tell them they’re wrong. If they persist, especially in making racist comments, they’re assholes. If they commit hate crimes, they should be thrown in jail. We should hold people to the same kind of standard when it comes to homophobia, but it then becomes someone’s personal belief, a differing of opinion, religious convictions, a moral issue, etc. However, racism, misogyny, and even religious intolerance are dealt with through social and even legal sanctions.
While there is some social and legal protection against homophobia, it’s pretty thin. Plus, the religious right and other homophobes won’t stop until gays and lesbians lose those rights. Also, preventing sexual minorities from gaining any more equal rights is high on their agenda.
Eventually homophobia will be as archaic as bloodletting. I only hope it happens sooner, not later.
These are the things I wish would go away in 2009. As for items 1, 2, and 5, we all have to keep fighting the good fight.
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Aug 07
What Knob Lobbers!
Craig and company, that is.
First Ted and then Chris post on the toe tapper.
It’s the third one this year. What’s up with the GOP and these closeted fraks? Allen, offender #2, tried to blame his cruising on a fear of black men:
In taped statements made by Allen to police following his arrest and released by the force Allen admits to soliciting the male officer but claims that it was the result of being nervous by the high number of black men in the park.
I’ve never heard that one before – using racism as an alibi when caught for cruising. I see he shows his true colors (would rather admit to being a bigot instead of the big, gross homo he is. He is both). What a knob lobber!
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Aug 07
What Do Space Aliens Have To Do With Art History?
This one’s set in the fashion design school I went to right after graduating from high school.
Art history class was often one big slide show where the teacher managed to keep it interesting (in contrast to the color theory teacher whose droning voice often put me to sleep). She was intelligent and lively, and she highlighted what we needed to know about the artworks presented. Of course, that wasn’t enough for Frankie, a small little man. Apparently, not much was there at all, and he decided Art History was a course in the paranormal. When the teacher reviewed Stone Age, Neolithic, and Egyptian art, Frankie constantly interrupted her to ask if space aliens visited them and influenced with their works.
She, like most professional educators, displayed an incredible amount of patience.
If space aliens had anything to do with this, they most likely abducted Frankie some time ago before his admission to the school and vaporized most of his grey matter.
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Aug 07
There Are No Such Things As Stupid Questions…
When I took course in European history as an undergrad some years ago, there were a few strange people on the class. One thirty something man would ask extremely convoluted questions that could be written out as complex sentences that said nothing at all, which would confound the professor, a man with a Classical education. He was often patient in trying to deal with this student, though I could see that these questions got on his nerves.
One day, the discussion was on Greece and Turkey, and another student asked, “Where does the name of Turkey come from, other than ‘gobble gobbble?’”
My classmates and I were all embarrassed for him, especially since there was a young woman from Turkey in the class. She graciously explained that the name came from Turkiye, the name for the Turkish people.
It’s a moment that’s a testimony to the unsurpassed wit and intelligence of Americans to our international student guests.
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Jun 07
Evil, Crazy Bitch
To call Ann Coulter an evil, crazy bitch is kind. Those words don’t even do justice to how twisted this woman is. Hopefully, sometime in the future, she won’t be able to renew her publishing contract and the remaining inventory will have to be pulped. And then her hair and wardrobe will go down the tubes because she can’t pay her hairdresser and stylist to keep it up. Well, I can only dream about that stuff happening to Coulter and those of her ilk (Limbaugh, etc).
Major kudos to Elizabeth Edwards for standing up to the stick figure this week. Let’s hope that Coulter, as an act of kindness, stops writing, as she seems to be incapable of articulating anything truly germane to the issues at hand.
These clips are so last year, but they show what a piece of work she is.
She represents all that is great about the American education system as she shows how little she is informed about Canada and the Vietnam war.
Here is a fine moment where Ann Coulter shows how stupid she is, on a Fox show of all things.
My favorite clip is the David Letterman vid, so I saved the best for last. I laughed my ass off on this one.
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Jun 07
Idiocy of the Day
Thanks to Chris for highlighting this news gem of the day: Flushed Bra Causes Sewer Collapse. Since I’ve never experienced British plumbing first hand, I’ll take Chris’s friend’s word that it is very delicate. That’s no excuse. The person who flushed their bra and panties down the toilet is an idiot deserving public humiliation. However, living with the secret shame of knowing they caused sewage problems for the rest of County Dunham will have to be punishment enough.
A few years ago, my mother had a Christmas party where one of the guests flushed a tampon down the bathroom toilet and clogged it up for the rest of the night, creating discomfort for everyone else (there was no way she was going to let anyone use the master bedroom’s bathroom). The cause wasn’t known until a day or so later when a contractor friend of hers came over, pulled out the toilet, and found the nasty item. After that, my mother asked the guests who did it, but no one would admit a thing.
In any case, I can’t get over what people think they can send down the sewage main via the commode. I’m surprised the bra and panties got as far as they did, so English toilets must be very high-flush. Could any Britons please enlighten this Yank on the subject?
