Idiot of the Month Awards
stcynic | June 19, 2004It's reached the point where there are so many idiots in the world that I may have to make this a weekly award rather than a monthly one. Perhaps even a Moron du Jour, starting with the imbeciles at probush.com. These knuckle-dragging cretins have come up with a Traitor List, which begins with this statement:If you do not support our President's decisions you are a traitor
It lists folks like Susan Sarandon and the Dixie Chicks. Some days the world seems full of halfwits and simpletons. Why can't stupidity be painful?
stcynic | June 4, 2004I didn't think that anyone could possibly come close to Scott Thomas for June's Idiot of the Month Award, but it took only a few hours to find an article that is at least on the same level of sheer stupidity. This one is in the Washington Dispatch (the same webrag that printed Brian Cherry's abysmal article on evolution a few weeks ago) and is written by someone named Nancy Salvato. Salvato thinks that the media is guilty of treason, and you're gonna love the reasons she gives. First, because they have reported on situations that might be vulnerable to terrorist attack:Pluchinsky writes:…
stcynic | June 2, 2004May's Idiot of the Month Award goes to Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women for America, for this ridiculous screed in - where else? - the WorldNutDaily. Even by the standards of WND, Knight succeeds brilliantly in making himself sound like a knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing moron. His premise is that the events of sexual abuse and humiliation that went on in Abu Ghraib are not the fault of the military or the administration whose policies they carried out, they're the fault of liberals who have fostered an immoral culture in America.…
stcynic | April 29, 2004Anyone who has followed the evolution/creationism issue for any period of time is quite accustomed to seeing articles filled with the most basic factual errors, poor spelling and hackneyed arguments. But this article, written by someone named Brian Cherry in a webmag called the Washington Dispatch, may take the cake. It's bad enough that for a moment, one suspects that it is a parody. Alas, it's not. Mr. Cherry actually wrote it and, presumably, believes it. Unfortunately, he can't even get the most basic facts right, let alone comprehend the larger issues he discusses. Let's begin the…