The bubble of stupidity.

Nine down, one hundred and twenty-nine to go.

A few days ago I ran across this little gem.
"Love means educating yourself enough to know that the government has a eugenics agenda to reduce world population to 500 million people. And that the term "conspiracy theory" was invented in 1967 by the CIA, to discredit people who were revealing their plans."

Really?  I think someone should probably lay off the Kool-Aid,

especially if it's laced with LSD or spiked with lots of vodka.  Now, don't get me wrong, I've drank the Kool-Aid, sometimes spiked with vodka too.  If it weren't for coffee I might even enjoy a tall, cold glass today.

Conspiracy theories though?  Puh-leeze.  Flat-Earthers, seriously?  Anti-Vaxxers, you're idiots for endangering the rest of society.  Anti-science, anti GMO freaks?  Guess what ladies and gentlemen,  it's all been genetically modified by bazillions of years of evolution.  Fake moon landings, Paul is dead, Jim Morrison isn't.  The New World Order and the Illuminati,  FEMA death relocation and re-education camps.  False and Black flag operations, Black helicopters flying over the wastelands.  Man-made diseases and the suppression of "The Cure" for "Cancer".  RFID chips, perpetual motion power generators, dihydrogen monoxide chemtrails being sprayed on us from commercial airliners?  Well, okay.  I'll concede the truth to that one.

Yada, yada, blah, blah, blah.

Is it gullibility, ignorance or just the same part of the brain that fuels religious fanaticism?  A desire to believe in something intangible?  Science is your friend.

The Science behind the conspiracies.

This one makes two that are now loaded and ready.  I've clawed back a tiny bit of lead time.  I wouldn't count on it lasting through the week though. 

Ten down, one hundred and twenty-eight to go.
Thanks for your time.

See you tomorrow.

I haz questions.

During the disasters that were games 5 and 6 for the St. Louis Bluenotes a particular commercial advertisement caught my eye and piqued my curiosity.  In it, Lincoln Motors is trying to sell me a new car SUV thingy.  One of the selling points harped on in the voice-over is that the hatch, lift gate remembers your height. 

Really?  Why?  Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?  

To prevent your College bound basketball star son from helping bring in the groceries?  To shelter you from inclement weather?  Because it's nice to know your car cares and remembers you?  Gimme a break.  Can anyone enlighten me?

How much R&D and production money has the Ford Motor Corporation poured into this little gem?  And how much does that option cost the consumer?  FoMoCo couldn't put that cash to better use, I don't know, say safer vehicles, better fuel efficiency or alternative energy sources altogether?

Innovation boys and girls.  Volvo is striving for Fatality free cars by 2020.  From CNN Money.  Tesla is charging (intentional) the electric car market.  Self-driving cars are already proving their worth.  And Lincoln is touting this marvel of modern engineering?  

It's the 21st century dammit!

Where in the Hell is my flying car?

     

For what it's worth, I've managed to pad my lead a little.

Thanks.

See you when I see you, probably tomorrow if you're lucky...