The SEB mailbag is becoming quite the resource for entries as of late. This one comes from someone named David L. Ries who stumbled across an entry I wrote back in August of 2003 about the craptastic Philip Stein Teslar Watch. He apparently didn’t like the tone or the conclusion I came to in the . . . → Read More: SEB Mailbag: Another moron defends the Teslar watch, attacks fluoride.
Some people are scary stupid. This guy is one of them:
GPS ankle bracelet leads deputies to burglary suspect – Springfield News Sun
SPRINGFIELD — Perhaps James Wombles thought he made a clean getaway when he reportedly committed multiple burglaries in Clark and Miami counties between December and January.
Is there something about being Catholic that makes people of that particular Christian denomination more stupid gullible than the Protestants? There must be because we keep getting news items like this one:
Indians blinded looking for vision of Mary – UPI.com
Read about it here: The Consumerist: Sharper Image Suspends Acceptance of Gift Cards Due to Bankruptcy
From the story:
Despite issuing a press release claiming that they “will continue to conduct business as usual”, The Shaper Image has suspended redemption of all gift certificates after filing for bankruptcy late on Tuesday.
Bigots and racists in the American South have found a way to offend not just blacks, but Canadians in a single stroke. Because use of the word “nigger” has become so socially unacceptable they’ve started using the word “Canadian” as a kind of substitute or codeword:
A Nigerian-born father of two boys, living in the UK, felt that since God had his tongue cut off in the Bible, he must inflict similar injuries on his sons. He put pins in their tongues and through their lips, cut their mouths with scalpel blades, and pressing one of the boy’s tongue with sharp . . . → Read More: Father puts pins in son’s tongues because of God.
There’s nothing quite like a good laugh on a Monday so here’s today’s SEB Mailbag:
From: Subject: OHH the bliss of ignorance
You have got to be the most uneducated person that I have ever stumbled across. You should try one thing…. RESEARCH!!!! It’s way to easy to slander someone these days. Seems the only . . . → Read More: SEB Mailbag: The Ironic Subject Line Edition.
Family Sees Virgin Mary On Living Room Wall – Portland News Story – WMTW Portland
Donna Quintana, of Meadow Lake, N.M., said it’s a much-needed blessing that appeared right before her family’s eyes Christmas Eve. Her husband saw it first.
As mentioned by a couple of folks in another thread, the rapture was supposed to have happened by December 31st of 2007 at the latest according to the nutcase True Believer™ who runs this website. Being as it’s January 2nd, 2008 and Mr. True Believer™ is still on the planet along with the vast majority . . . → Read More: The Rapture Ready 2007 guy admits he was wrong, but is still a believer.
Have to say that there wasn’t a single entry on this list of the 50 most loathsome people by the folks at The Beast that I didn’t agree with. I might quibble on the order of a couple of entries, but overall it was spot on. Particularly this one:
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