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A City Council bill that would monitor the practices of banks receiving billions in city deposits sets ?a new low for idiocy,? Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday.In one of his harshest assessments of the council, the mayor questioned if its members knew what they were doing and warned that some...
Fri, 18 May 2012 22:27:30 -0700 -
China-envy is idioc
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman likes to muse about how wonderful it would be if the United States could be like China for a day. The scandal engulfing former rising star Bo Xilai, the cashiered Communist Party boss of the city of Chongqing, suggests how this magical day might...
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:33:05 -0700 -
UK Prime Minister Says Something That's The Height Of Idioc
Jaw. Dropped.
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:12:00 -0700 -
What's wrong with French traders
Blame for JPMorgan's monster $2 billion trading loss is being laid at the door of French trader Bruno Michel Iksil, placing him in a unenviable group of compatriots accused of financial shenanigans or idiocy.
Sat, 12 May 2012 04:42:06 -0700 -
Today in idiocy: The prank phone call Mohamed Sanu received last nigh
Sadly, this world is filled with stupidity and blinding ignorance, the kind that was on display earlier this week when Washington Capitals forward Joel Ward scored the most important goal in his professional hockey career during overtime of Game 7 against the Boston Bruins. Shortly after the puck hit the twine the Internet did what [...]
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:38:59 -0700 -
Vince Gray Gets Gore
The term ?senseless crime? is oftenapplied to acts of pointless violence. But it?s also an apt term to describe the sheer idiocy of the alleged plot by Mayor Vince Gray ?s 2010 campaign aides to fund fringe candidate Sulaimon Brown and his over-the-top attacks on then-Mayor Adrian Fenty .
Wed, 23 May 2012 15:31:36 -0700 -
The Team That Forfeited a Championship Because It Had to Play Against a Gir
I would love to spend a few hundred or so words on the idiocy of a high school that refused to take the field for a baseball championship because the other team had a girl playing second base. But I have to tip my hat to someone who already said it better than I could, ...
Wed, 16 May 2012 09:13:50 -0700 -
David Cameron accused of idiocy over austerity mantr
Business Insider writer Joe Weisenthal accused Cameron of sounding like a moron when he said Britain's low interest rates demonstrate it has credibility Calling David Cameron a moron is a talking point. And I suppose that is what Business Insider , the US news website, wanted when it reported the prime minister's comments at Question Time as representing "the height of idiocy". Staff writer Joe ...
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:31:49 -0700 -
New Law Would Drag Anonymous Internet Commenters Out Of Basement, Into Dayligh
We never thought we'd be the ones to defend your right to anonymously scrawl "bike lanes fart lampshade" on a post about food stamps but Albany's idiocy so moves us. Identical bills that have been proposed in the Assembly and the Senate that would require New York websites to "remove any comments posted on his or her website by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach ...
Wed, 23 May 2012 08:19:23 -0700 -
?Battleship?: 10 things that make it a classic American blockbuste
I must confess that I was very skeptical about the movie ? Battleship .? The trailers made it look like a loud, stupid and potentially deafening exercise in idiocy. I had already seen Taylor Kitsch this year in a movie officially deemed a sleep aid by the American Medical Association, and feared this could be another. Read full article >>
Fri, 18 May 2012 13:59:00 -0700 -