March 28th, 2008 | 
Author: So, time for another dose of idiocy. Well, a double-dose of idiocy with a chaser of poetic justice. 
First, a debate between Fadhel Al-Said, an Iraqi “Researcher in Astronomy” and a Physicist. Debating whether or not the Earth is flat. In 2008.
Swallow your food, first. You’ll choke otherwise.
The TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) has really gone too far now:
A woman was forced by the Transportation Security Administration to remove her nipple rings before she was allowed to board a flight, an attorney said on Thursday.
“The woman was given a pair of pliers in order to remove the rings in her nipples,” said Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred. “The rings had been in her nipples for many years.”
Yep. Pliers. Read the full article.
Finally, the poetic justice:
Wal-Mart was trying to shut down a couple of web sites (http://www.walqaeda.com & http://www.walocaust.com) that were set up to highlight the methods they employ to stifle local competition when they open a store. However, even they knew that there was no grounds to proceed against the guy on the content of the site. So, they sued him for using their yellow smiley face graphic without permission. If you’ve ever set foot inside a Mall-Wart, you know the graphic I mean. Trademark infringemen, you know.
Well, the judge heartily disagreed with them. He’s ruled that not only does the parody site’s use of the smiley face not violate their trademark, Wal-Mart doesn’t have any trademark rights at all to the image!
Even Wal-Mark, destroyer of small-towns and violater of souls, is subject to parody.
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I saw the thing with the pliers, good lord, what a country America has become…
(I saw a dude bicycling in Chicago shirtless: each nipple pierced, chain linking them and another chain which led down into his pants connecting to….what?)
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Oh good lord. It’s nice to see the Christians don’t have a monopoly on backassward scientific phobia. Or, maybe it’s scary.
Ouch! Ouch!
Yay judge!
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Oh my gosh the debate was unbelieveable. We know the earth is square.
I was flabbergasted when the lady had to remove the nipple rings. I see Gloria what’s her name coming to bat for her. We all know feds can’t really be sued don’t we?
The truly disheartening thing in all of this is that these are just the tip of the iceberg. Idiocy and stupidity (two very distinctive states of being) abound.
Thanks Gordo. I’ll never step into a WalMart(tm) again. At least until next Friday, when I’ll need to pick up some more toilet-paper and Cheetos(tm).
Keep smokin’ out the hypocrites, and I’ll keep readin’.
Cork
I found the video of the earth is flat fellow depressing. There seem to be a few of these earnest literalists around. Some of them are bible thumpers.
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In my husband’s business law class for grad school he learned that America is one of the very few, if not only, countries where there is no trademark on the yellow smiley which was made popular in the 60’s. And my question for flat earthers has always been, if we see the moon as a big round ball, why on earth would we think our planet is something else? I love that the scientist asked what shape exactly the earth would be. So bizarre.
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Marian, I do find the very existence of these people depressing. Or maybe it’s just disappointing. Either way, not good.
Flea, I DO love to see corporate bullies get slapped down like that. Especially a soul-destroyer like Mall-Wart. They haven’t been able to pull the shenanigans up here that they’re known for down there, but I still think the government should have stopped them at the border.
Flat earthers have been around for ever. And they’ll always be around. Or is it they’ll always be aflat…? Bah… never mind
And as for Wal-Mart – they’re only here because they think there’s a market for in being here. No one’s holding a gun to anyone’s head and forcing them to shop there. You want Wal-Mart to go away? Stop people from shopping there.
There will always be a market for made in Chinese sweatshop crap, Ken. Always. Mall-Wart is there capitalize on the desperate human need to save $1 and get everything from garden supplies to prescription drugs, and every in between, under one roof. What used be called a “mall” is now called a “SuperCentre”.
Yup, you’re right, Gordo. So whose fault is it that these places are there to take advantage of human nature? Wal-Mart or ours?
I’d bet money it’s ours.
Of course it is, Ken. We’re weak. I’m working on a post about this right now.