Smarten up for better health, dumb ass

As if we stupid people didn’t have enough to worry about, a new study done in the United Kingdom has shown that having a low I.Q. puts one at greater risk for heart disease.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow studied a group of 4,289 former U.S. soldiers and determined that intelligence alone explained 23 percent of the differences in mortality between the highest and lowest socioeconomic groups. Continue reading »

Pageantry and puerility: a perilous pair

If you’re anything like me, and I think you probably are, you love stupid.

I don’t mean, “stupid me, I locked my keys in the car” absentmindedness. I mean sheer “stupid me, I locked myself in the car” idiocy.

I’m talking about good old-fashioned red, blond and blue American numbskullery. The kind of moronity that gave us “Jackass,” Anna Nicole Smith and the Bush administration. Keanu Reeves dumb. That’s what I’m looking for. That’s what makes me such a stupidphile. Continue reading »