Stupid should hurt
or How I learned to love the Dumb.
Saturday, after the wife and Oglet and i headed for home, a bunch of asshelmets hopping up and down on a bridge fell, not to their deaths, unfortunately, but to their dampness.
A couple injuries, which will result in lawsuits, no doubt.
Bottom line, is, stupidity reigns. It should hgurt to be stupid, and these people got precisely what they deserved, which was to be dumped into the drink because they were too stupid to stay off the bridge as directed to by cops. Instead of staying home and missing work and nursing their lumps for being stupid, they will probably get a nice payday.
Had I designed that bridge, it would slowly lower as it was overloaded, so people would get wet without getting hurt, a direct result of their own stupidity. Maybe that’s what we need- a world that once again has consequences for stupidity and bad decision making.
And that’s just what Mr porretto has in mind, here. He has an interesting plan, and the more people I can reccomend it to, the better. I like it a lot, and i hope it works well.
Here’s the thing: I have but one fear, and that is of hubris. I mouth off in public, and I put my opinion out there writ large, so everyone can see it. but in my private life, I am the very model of humility, because I understand what Hubris is.
The very model of Hubris, on our planet, right now, is the wingnut-headed fool at the helm.
Let me remind you, for a moment, of the story of Nimrod.
Nimrod is seen as a great hunter. He is looked upon as some model sportsman, and this is where he started to go wrong. Accounts differ depending on what you read, but having the power of death over all of God’s creation gave him the (erroneous) impression that he was godlike himself. (Not realizing it was the ability to endow LIFE, and not DEATH, that made one a God)
Nimrod’s hubris brought him more and more defeat all his life, until his crowning glory, the building of the Tower of Babel. Babel was built to be a monument to mankind and the builders, with no recognition of the place for The Creator. And it was summarily destroyed.
Our little dumbo-headed nimrod has coe to a place where his hubris is about to vertake him. It may be the Creator doing so directly, it may be legions of people following Porretto’s plan, it may be something else- but the cosmic toilet is being flushed, and the shit storm is a’coming. Watch this space.
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Looks good to me. I can think of sevral asshats that need ventelation.
I used to go to that display up to the early 90’s. Crowd control people in road guard vests were supposed to ration the people passing on the bridge, but they just got pushed aside by the mob. And you had a number of yutes who thought making it bounce up and down so the boards would slap your heels as you walked, and sway side to side to make anyone look drunk, was funny. By the 90’s, the crowd got a meaner edge to it, and I said forget it.
I’m surprised it took this long to finally wear the bridge enough to fail. It was a darn good bridge 363 days of the year, and hell for two.
Damn fine idea that fellow has!
Your discussion of Nimrod couldn’t have been more timely given the news about Zero’s health care plan just revealed at Belmont Club, in a thread entitled “Electing God.”
Unfortunately, Stupid can hurt innocent bystanders. For instance:
I was sitting at a stop light yesterday when a couple young punks ran the fuckin’ light, slammed into a Yukon, caromed off the Yukon and nailed me in the front.
Now I’ve got to deal with THAT shit. DAMN I hate Stupid People.
OOoooo….. cosmic flush!
YES PLEASE!
Ya know, every single time I’m involved in a case of stupid, it does hurt, but I never get wet.
Libs: Tell me about it. I can’t count the times I’ve almost been sideswiped on the freeway because the idiot in the far lane decided he was going to merge at the same time as me — except that I am anal-retentive about signaling my intent. Apparently, this makes me the exception.
Joanna: don’t know about your area, but here and Texas you also have the people who think the light turning red means “But I can still rush through!”
Or the morons who somehow manage to not see a 500-pound motorcycle, lights and all, with a guy on it, in the space they decide to move into.
Hey!!!
I have a Guardian Angel. Thanks, Og.
You have hit the nail on the head, boss.
Sometime in the last couple of decades, possibly longer, but definitely within my lifetime, American society went from a model of “reward initiative, punish laziness/stupidity” to the inverse. Until that changes, we’ll continue on our collision course with “Idiocracy”. It truly is de-evolution.
Libs: you situation is why it should be legal to shoot the stupid. Our host covers that in a subsequent post, I believe.