Before You Have Too Much Hope For The Human Race
I often find myself awed by the latest scientific discoveries or technological advances. In particular moments of weakness, I even catch myself thinking that maybe we’re not so hopeless a species after all. Then I remind myself that:
There are people who believe that every single malady that befalls society – terrorist attack, new [...]
Who Falls For This Crap?
I know newspapers are hurting these days, as they have failed to keep up with the technological changes in the world. But are things so bad that mainstream papers have to take advertising dollars from outright scam artists? Are things so desperate for them that the editor can’t reject a fake-Amish-mantle-heater-energy-saving-scam-device-that-is-actually-made-in-China ad?
Here is [...]
Islam Is Not Peaceful, People Are Peaceful
I cannot count the number of times that I have heard a Muslim state emphatically that Islam is a peaceful religion. This declaration is normally proffered on the heels of some horribly violent world event, such as another suicide bomber, now on his glorious path to awaiting virgins (who is dim enough to buy [...]
All Theories Are Equally Valid – You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me!
What is it with those people who claim that “since we aren’t 100% sure about X, then all theories must be considered equally valid”?
Really? REALLY?
If this were truly the case, I doubt that we could survive even ten minutes in this world. For example, take getting up in the morning. I have [...]
The Six Dumbest Reasons to Reproduce
To keep the family name alive. Of all the senseless, vain things to do, you would bring a human life into this world solely to keep your last name in the phone book? Moron.
To have someone take care of you in your old age. This has to be just about the most pathetic excuse [...]
Want to Save the Environment? Then Stop Reproducing!
Every time there is a world conference to discuss global warming, depletion of natural resources, destruction of the rain forests, etc., one topic seems to be completely taboo: population control.
The reason, I presume, that no one wishes to bring up this untouchable subject is that to do so would be to take on the Catholic [...]
The Cut, Color, and Clarity of Stupidity
All the proof ever needed to demonstrate that human beings are irretrievably flawed can be found in the diamond business.
Here’s a rough-cut summary: tens of thousands of workers, predominantly in third-world nations, sacrifice their health digging up hillsides and stream beds in order to find a few shiny objects. The shiny objects are then [...]
Water Shortages? H2O – The Stupidity!
Ever drive through communities in Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas? Despite being in the desert, it isn’t hard to ruin your new car wash by splashing through small rivers running through the streets.
At the same time we hear about dire water shortages, poorly maintained sprinkler systems shoot millions of gallons of water [...]
Breast Implant Idiocy
Oh those poor women who just can’t find happiness with the bodies that evolution and genetics gave them. They go and pay thousands of dollars to have someone slice their skin and insert packs of inorganic goo into their chest.
Some of them get lucky, have no complications, and are happy with the results. Then there [...]
Death For Popup Window Advertisers
Have you noticed the increase in websites that foist unsolicited popup ads right over the text of the main content area, usually after you’ve made it a few sentences in?
I know that click-through advertisements are what fund many content-rich sites, but this has crossed over the line of common courtesy. Do they actually think that [...]
The Greed of Your Seed Leads to the Need to Breed
Why do people choose to have kids? Yeah, sure, some of ‘em got knocked up, but for the most part, parenthood is a choice. So why do the vast majority of couples choose that path?
Does the world need more people? Hardly. The six billion we have are choking off the planet’s limited resources as it [...]
Its Sad To Say: There Grammar Is Worse Than You’re Own
So let me get this straight. We pay zillions of dollars in income and property taxes to “educate” other people’s children. Those brats get carted off in long, gas-guzzling yellow boxes for eight hours a day, five days a week, ten months a year, from age five to eighteen.
And at the other end of this [...]
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My name is John. I have opinions about everything, especially about how to solve world problems. Most of my rants have to do with the runaway stupidity on this planet. If you don't agree with my views, that's OK - it's a free country (kinda). Just don't mistake this site for a democracy!
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