Stupid World
This Week in Our Stupid World: Boobquake! Edition
I know what you were thinking. My loyal reader, dear and loyal reader — the one who hung on my every word — I know what you must have been thinking. You were thinking I ran out of material — that the world stopped being so damn stupid. I suggested as much. Repeatedly, even. In [...]
This Week In Our Stupid World: All the Lonely Preachers Edition
This week, the royal we at Stupid World would like to re-affirm our long standing challenge to the planet: put me out of a job. When I write the great American novel, or finish my novelization of Hot Tub Time Machine, I don’t want my adoring public to know me as Curly, of Stupid World [...]
This Week In Our Stupid World: The Totally Serious April 1st Edition
April 1st is a tough day in Our Stupid World, because at WBRU we take our fact checking seriously. We take our music seriously, our news seriously, we even take our Entertainment News almost seriously. So of course, we care about getting your stupid news right. And quite frankly, with so many wonderful-if-false leads out [...]
This Week In Our Stupid World: Im-mime-agration Edition
It’s the one month anniversary of This Week In Our Stupid World. You’d hope we’d have run out of material. But as our stupid world charges mercilessly ahead, I still wouldn’t call my job difficult. Half the time semi-legitimate news sources do my work for me. This week, for example, titles such as “Sex workers [...]
This Week in Our Stupid World: Vasectomy Madness Edition
A few things come with the middle of March: coups in Rome, college basketball, and the innocent redundancy “World Cheese Championship Contest” presented by Wisconsin Cheese Markers Association (this years winner: a massive wheel of Swiss Gruyere!). 30 judges from 12 countries weighed in on 50,000 lbs. of cheese in an effort to prove Wisconsin [...]
This Week In Our Stupid World: The Guinea Pig Toupee Edition
This week in history, Warren G Harding (The Forgotten President) became the first president of pay taxes (1923). Wilt Chamberlain set a new playoff scoring record with 53 points and 20,000 women (1960). And the Cincinnati Royals announced their plans to move to Kansas City, calling it at best a lateral move (1972). [...]
This Week in Our Stupid World: AIG Angry! AIG Smash! Edition
As the first week of March comes to its merciful conclusion let’s round up what happened in our stupid world, from Snuggies to soap:
The Cleveland Cavalier’s held “Snuggie Night” in an attempt to break the Guinness Book World Record for “most people wearing fleece blankets or a single color at a single location.” Or, as [...]
This Week In Our Stupid World: 2/22-2/28
This week in our stupid, stupid world:
A leaked memo from the British Ministry of “Defence” revealed their official strategy of destroying evidence of reported UFO sightings. The report states that the UFO specific hotline is diverting too much staff away from activities valuable to the “defence” of Britain (that is not the joke). Hiding [...]
