In our present Idiocracy, the bad guys can’t even pull off a carjacking because they’re flummoxed by one of these:

Stick shift defeats carjackers in downtown Ocala | Ocala.com

Are you better off now than you were six years ago? Most aren’t. Have a look at this:

(cribbed from Theo Spark)

All that progress since the early ’60s? Nearly wiped out.

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On requiring voters to show ID:

Most of these laws are not preventing the overwhelming majority of folks who don’t vote from voting. Most people do have an ID. Most people do have a driver’s license. Most people can get to the polls. It may not be as convenient; it may be a little more difficult.

You’re not going to believe who said this. Was it the second coming of Bull Connor, as most Democrats would have you believe?

Nope. It was none other than Barack Hussein Obama.

<snark> I always told you he was a racist son of a bitch. </snark>

:-)

Found this here:

A little more humility would do him some good:

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Anti-Science and Anti-Intellectual

I only managed 6 out of 10 (barely more than you’d get by random chance), but then I don’t keep up with the rot that is TMZ’s bread-and-butter…or is it Vox’s?  Pop “culture” in its current form is pretty much a sewer either way.  The article is more an indictment of Vox’s unseriousness than anything else:

QUIZ: Is This Headline From Vox Or TMZ?.

I’m stuck with it at work, but at least I don’t have to deal with it at home (where I run Linux) and I don’t have to clean up my parents’ or sister’s computers when I visit them (because they run Mac OS X). At work, I know better than to blindly click through installer screens because of crap like what’s described below, but most people aren’t, and the only reason this crap hasn’t infested our organization is that only IT is allowed to install stuff:

Download Wrappers and Unwanted Software are pure evil