Affluent Europeans and Americans who zip around their countries on massive, eight-lane superhighways were outraged recently when the impoverished nation of Tanzania announced its plans to build a highway through the southern part of the Serengeti plains.
“This highway will ruin one of the most magnificent sites on Earth!” cyber-shrieked someone on Facebook named Pia. “This is an urgent environmental issue.” Continue reading
One of the things I’ve always admired most about the dimwitted — a group that by no means precludes me, mind you — is the way one person’s stupidity frequently begets even more idiocy on the part of others. A perfect case in point is the brouhaha going on right now in England over the actions of one insignificant woman who did one very dumb thing.
The woman, Mary Bale, a 45-year-old bank worker from the town of Stoke, achieved infamy earlier this week when a video of her dropping a cat in a trash bin was posted on the Internet. Continue reading
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