By Todd Hartley on December 10, 2010
Greetings, friends. As many of you know, we here at “I’m With Stupid” don’t usually like to toot our own horns, despite the profound positive impact we make on the world each and every week, but this week we’re going to engage in a little self-congratulations because, by golly, we think we’ve earned it.
Some of you may recall a column from November 2009 wherein we brought you the inspiring story of a bear in India’s Kashmir region that single-handedly killed two heavily armed Muslim separatists and wounded two others. You remember that, don’t you? No? None of you? Well, we wrote it, trust us. Continue reading »
Posted in I'm With Stupid Tagged egypt, israel, middle east, mossad, sharks
By Todd Hartley on May 14, 2010
With hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico every day from the still-uncapped British Petroleum well, and with the airplane-grounding ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull having reached Morocco, you might think that Mother Nature is dying an ugly death around the globe. Sadly, you’re probably right.
There is some good news from the natural world, though, and being that I am always so upbeat and cheerful in my columns, I thought it would be nice to share that news with you: It seems the extinction of gray whales in the Atlantic Ocean has been greatly exaggerated after all. Continue reading »
Posted in I'm With Stupid Tagged israel, japan, judaism, nature, norway, whales
By Todd Hartley on January 1, 2010
With 2009 finally behind us, I thought this would be a good time to sit back and reflect on some of the notable events and landmarks of the past year. Now, I know many of you probably assume I’m going to talk about such mundane things as the U.S. inaugurating its first black president, or the passing of such American icons as Ted Kennedy and Michael Jackson, but fear not; I shan’t bore you with such tedious trivia. I have bigger fish to fry. Continue reading »
Posted in I'm With Stupid Tagged divorce, israel, marriage
By Todd Hartley on June 12, 2009
Did you ever accidentally throw out a box or a container only to realize later that there was something inside it you really needed? You felt like an idiot, didn’t you? And if you’re anything like me, you probably stayed ticked off at yourself for weeks afterward.
Imagine then how Annat, a woman from Tel Aviv, Israel, must feel. Just the other day Annat, who refused to give her last name lest people realize how royally she’d screwed up, Continue reading »
Posted in I'm With Stupid Tagged dump, israel, landfill, mattress, money, tel aviv