Lazy, not stupid

We here at peak stupid are "lazy, not stupid". That is why we haven't posted
for a while. While we get our act together, here is a quote to ponder:

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from
religious conviction." -Blaise Pascal

Obamessiah runs for president

“Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple.
The stage, similar to structures used for rock concerts, has been set up at the 50-yard-line, the midpoint of Invesco Field, the stadium where the Denver Broncos' National Football League team plays.
Some 80,000 supporters will see Obama appear from between plywood columns painted off-white, reminiscent of Washington's Capitol building or even the White House, to accept the party's nomination for president.
He will stride out to a raised platform to a podium that can be raised from beneath the floor.”
-- Reuters, Aug. 26, 2008

Politically Correct inversely proportional to intelligence.

A major new study of the political correctness of faculty members may challenge assumptions all around.

If you look at the actual figures it turns out -suprise suprise- that the most PC professors are in the most degraded parts of academe: Sociology, English, and the humanities generally.

Barbara Boxer

Barbara Boxer may be a new source of stupidity.

George Monbiot

Britain has excellent sources of stupid:

George Monbiot, the Guardian columnist and predictor of the world’s end, has undergone a metamorphosis of Kafkaesque proportions in recent years. Never mind poor Gregor Samsa, who awoke one morning to find himself transmogrified into a monstrous insect; Monbiot has made an even more remarkable cross-species leap. Some time during the past five years he went to bed an hysteric, the closest thing Britain had to a nutty Nostradamus, and awoke to find himself labelled a man of reason, a ‘defender of truth’ no less, who is praised on the dust-jacket of his latest book for possessing a ‘dazzling command of science’ (only by Naomi Klein, admittedly, but still).

New Non Scientific Alliance Against Logic

Art imitates life:

Three environmental pressure groups, 'The Soiled Association', 'Purplepeace' and 'Fiends of the Globe' have formed an association against those demons of the modern world, The Royal Institution, The Royal Society and The Institute of Biology.

Its funny because its true.

Biofuels

One of the stupidest ideas in the long, sad, sorry history of stupid:

Growing crops for oil was supposed to solve global warming. Now, as food prices soar, biofuels stand condemned as a crime against humanity. Christopher Booker and Richard North report.

With photosynthesis running at an efficiency of 1 to 3%, what did they expect?