Conversations with a Dumbass: Water Powered Car edition.

Got the following email last night for no apparent reason:

From: Subject: water powered car

I just have to say something here and you will most likely call it bullshit, but I know what I am saying is true. Back in 1979 a young man came to my door trying to get me to buy . . . → Read More: Conversations with a Dumbass: Water Powered Car edition.

Man secretly names daughter “Sarah McCain Palin.” Let’s see if his wife notices.

Some folks take their political activism a little too seriously:

Mark Ciptak of Elizabethton put that name on the documents for the girl’s birth certificate, ignoring the name Ava Grace, which he and his wife had picked earlier.

“I don’t think she believes me yet,” he told the Kingsport Times-News for a story to be . . . → Read More: Man secretly names daughter “Sarah McCain Palin.” Let’s see if his wife notices.

Dumbass woman sees rainbow in sprinkler spray, thinks it’s “unnatural.”

In yet another example of why science literacy is important we’re proud to present to you: Dumbass woman who thinks there’s something wrong with her water because she can see a rainbow in the spray from her sprinkler…

The video was created last summer and is painful to listen to as the woman says things . . . → Read More: Dumbass woman sees rainbow in sprinkler spray, thinks it’s “unnatural.”

Tom Delay says: God made America to spread the Gospel!

I’m so glad Tom Delay is no longer a member of the House of Representatives, but his retirement hasn’t stopped him from spouting off with the crazy:

I know that America was created by God and it was created by God, not for wealth, personal wealth. It wasn’t created by God so that we would . . . → Read More: Tom Delay says: God made America to spread the Gospel!

Spammer sentenced to jail escapes and kills wife, daughter, and himself.

This is just a weird story all the way around. Edward “Eddie” Davidson is consider one of the “Spam Kings” and he was finally brought up on charges, convicted, and sentenced to 21 months (less than two years) in jail and ordered to pay $714,139 in restitution to the IRS (compare that to the estimated . . . → Read More: Spammer sentenced to jail escapes and kills wife, daughter, and himself.

WSJ op-ed claims “The Dark Night” is actually a homage to George W. Bush.

The Wall Street Journal has always been a conservative rag and I expected to get even more so once it was bought out by Rupert Murdoch, but I didn’t expect him to start hiring editorial writers that are smoking crack:

There seems to me no question that the Batman film “The Dark Knight,” currently breaking . . . → Read More: WSJ op-ed claims “The Dark Night” is actually a homage to George W. Bush.

One of the problems with being historically ignorant…

… is that it can make you look like an idiot when you try to protest for a good cause. Here’s a pic of a sign at a recent anti-China Olympics protest:

The answer is: Yes, yes we would allow them to host the Olympics. In 1936 in fact.

Crack a history book every now . . . → Read More: One of the problems with being historically ignorant…

SEB Mailbag: Conversations with a Dumbass - Teslar Watch edition.

Got the following email last night in regards to the entry I wrote awhile back about the captastic Teslar watch:

From: Allan “Sid” Sidney – Lensminder@msn.com Subject: Teslar watch

Hello, Just a note from someone who has one and likes it.  I bought the watch for the esthetic reasons and because it is somewhat . . . → Read More: SEB Mailbag: Conversations with a Dumbass - Teslar Watch edition.

Teenager kills parents so they won’t consider him a disappointment.

That’s some, er, mighty fine thinking you got going there, Jacob:

Jacob Brighton said he shot his parents last month because he always felt like a disappointment to them because he didn’t have a job, smoked marijuana and didn’t share the same “qualities or interests” as his father, according to the recently released documents.

“So . . . → Read More: Teenager kills parents so they won’t consider him a disappointment.