Matt Of All Trades

Ben Shapiro, proud of his, um, wood, outside a  Home Depot in his mocked viral video.   Ben Shapiro bought a little piece of wood at Home Depot.   This sounds like a who cares sentence, but leave it to Shapiro to make this into another farce.  Shapiro, for those who don't know him, is a young, hapless conservative pundit who is expert at self-owns and non-sensical, "helpful" suggestions.  A classic example: He once gave this simple, elegant solution to people who will eventually have their homes flooded by rising sea levels brought on by climate change.  Shapiro sees this as no problem at all.  The flooded homeowners can just sell their property and move.  Sell to who? Aquaman? Anyway, Shapiro is pissed off these days because several large Georgia-based corporations, like Delta and Coca Cola, object to Georgia's new voter suppression laws. Everybody knows the laws are meant to get rid of black voters to keep the GOP in various offices. (It n...

At least in my opinion, this financial company's CEO  is way too interested in his employees' sex lives.  He doesn't want you working for him if you've had premarital sex. Ugh! I can't resist a little more on this terrible boss that has come to light a couple weeks after I first posted this. Dave Ramsey and Ramsey Solutions was predictably sued because the firm is being run as a sort of "religious cult" and demands that employees give "complete and total submission to Dave Ramsey and his views of the world to maintain employment." You can see a lot of the reasons why this seems to be so in the rest of the post below. However, Religion News Service gives additional details in relation to this lawsuit.  Ramsey is a dangerous type. Both megalomaniac and stupid.  The lawsuit, of course, boils down to Ramsey's stupidity regarding the Covid pandemic. Says Religion News Service: "Lawyers for Brad Amos, a former Ramsey Solutions video editor, a...

Video still of an idiot who took a 2 year old into an elephant enclosure at San Diego Zoo and they both almost got  smushed by said elephant  Invasion of the stupid people continues unabated.  The latest idiot, carrying his two-year-old daughter, went into an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, because apparently, taking selfies with an innocent child in an extremely dangerous situation is a thing.  People want selfies under any circumstance, I guess.  Needless to say, the elephant in question was not happy with the intruder. They like their space. The elephant trumpeted and stormed toward our idiot, says ABC7 in Los Angeles. "The flustered dad raced to slip back out of the enclosure, but dropped his daughter on the way out.....He grabbed her again and they both managed to escape as the crowed screamed and yelled "Watch out!" I hope he managed a good selfie with the kid, because it's going to be pricey! Jose Manuel Navarrete, 25 was charged with child endan...

Poor Lou Dobbs, silenced earlier this month by his own suck up to Trump life and (probably) a huge lawsuit.  So many anti-Trumpers, including me, did a little jig of joy when we learned earlier this month that Lou Dobbs had been sacked from Fox.  Dobbs, I swear was like a North Korean newscaster, or "Baghdad Bob" the Iraqi spokesman who hilariously insisted that everything was fine as we invaded. Fox's decision to dump Dobbs might have had teensy bit to do with the fact that Smartmatic, an electronic voting system company is, shall we say, a bit peeved with Dobbs and other Fox talking heads like Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro.  As almost all of us know, all these Fox personalities relentless peddled the tale that Joe Biden "stole" the election. That tale keeps going on among the GOP cult, even though Biden has been president for almost a month now.  If you want to force yourself to believe the QAnon line of thinking, an elaborate conspiracy involving a dead ...

Crazy Marjorie Taylor Greene has inexplicably become a  GOP darling, despite her, um, interesting ideas.  Back on November 8, 2018, some power lines broke and arced in northern California in the middle of a wind storm and severe drought.    The resulting wildfire became a monster and destroyed the town of Paradise, California. The fire killed 75 people, and it was the worse wildfire in California history.  Most people would not want to make the situation worse for the grieving residents of Paradise. Then again, most people are not Marjorie Taylor Greene. She is my nominee as worst U.S congressperson every. And that's saying something  Greene is one of those QAnon conspiracy theorists. Yes, she's delusional, but the mean streak that's part of this pathology really makes her special.  Her conspiracy nonsense seems designed to make everybody feel worse.  Most people want to help, or at least empathize with the fine citizens of Paradise, California....

One of the more obnoxious viral anti-maskers out there. Unpatriotic, stupid, terroristic, entitled, hateful They all need to be outed and shamed  for who they are. Among the most infuriating things about this pandemic is the self-righteous, unpatriotic butt wipes out there who make videos of themselves refusing to wear masks, violating rules and regulation put in place to try and control the pandemic.  They are the ones who march into stores and restaurants without masks and record themselves making things absolutely horrendous for retail and other customer service workers.  They have no shame, obviously. Mean and dumb is probably the worst combination for humans, and these 'Covidiots" as they're called,  fit the bill to a T. Sure, they're annoying because they get their facts entirely wrong, as stores do not have to honor fake (or even real) medical or religious exemptions to mask requirements.  The worst part is the emotional abuse these Covidiots inflict on i...