by Loren Jersey If you’ve been paying any attention to the Stupidopolis site news, you have read a few statistics that we were quite happy about, regardless of what Fred our dear editor has written. We average around 150 hits per month when there is new material. Google Analytics tells us that these hits come…
Category: Editorial
commentary, most often of a ranting sort
Eating Dangerously
By Enlitened Organic food scares me. Not because I am afraid that organic food is bad for me, but because the logical contusion is that I have been eating inorganic food all my life. My belly is filled with rocks! That’s why my teeth are so bad! I thought it was my parent’s fault, but…
The Cure for Road Rage
by Dr. Love Cutting people off, shouting obscenities, crude gestures, shootings; these are all the horrible offspring of that evil monster called road rage. It is such an epidemic problem that I am appalled nothing is being done about it. Well I have the solution, and no, little miss-road-rage, it does not involve “killing all the…
Dear Advice
DEAR SOUND TECHNICIAN: I am a happily married man in my early 40’s. My wife and I have always had fun together no matter what we did, but lately it has been getting harder to satisfy her in the bedroom. She says it’s not me, and although I am losing a bit of my hair,…
On the Edge of Outsourcing
6/26/2008 Outsourcing is the latest fad to fail in corporate America, but it needn’t be so. The trouble with all of these fads is that they attack a symptom, but never address the root cause. If your company has tried it, you are aware of the damage it can do. If your company is talking…
Chicken Spaghetti Thief
I was recently discussing inventions with a co-worker of mine when he suggested that I Google the description to see if the product already existed. “Oh no,” I said “they steal ideas from people. I don’t do that anymore!” He seemed confused, so I explained; search engines have been aware of this for years. They…
Feng Shuing!
by Loren Jersey A new reality show is taking the nation by storm. Competitive Feng Shui has got everybody talking. The show begins with three identical stage rooms, each with several articles of furniture, plants, small sculptures and paintings just outside the rooms. Contestants are given 10 minutes to arrange the rooms for a specific…
The Drollery of Blood
I’m sure you would agree with me when I say that blood is serious stuff, I mean we need most of what we have to stay alive. But I’m here to argue that blood is also very funny. Allow me to illustrate. One variable that can affect the comedy of blood is volume. how much blood there…
Biofuel or Biofool
Ha ha ha! What a clever title that is! anyway, I am sick and tired of people talking about ethonol as teh fuel of the future. It has been proven that our country cannot make ethonol for a profit, and that it costs ten times as much to make one gallon of ethonlol as one gallon…
How to Drive Like a Dick
Welcome to part three of my series on driving. At this point you have hopefully learned what set of rules city drivers are operating under, and why so many of them are idiots . You are now ready to study the penultimate level of driving prowess: the Dick. To drive like a dick is to be…