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Archive for the ‘stupidity’ Category

July 18th, 2008

SAINT Award: James Tramel and Bleeding Heart John Does 1-99

It’s been far too long since StarkedSF has named a dreaded SAINT, or Satan’s Assistant IN Training. This one goes to James Tramel, the priest & convicted murderer who allegedly got into a manipulative sexual relationship with a parishioner at San Francisco’s Trinity Episcopal Church. And not just to Tramel . . […]

By Paul -- 0 comments

June 16th, 2008

Reality Television: America’s Obsession with Losing and Failure

This is the first part of a five-section series on reality television and some perhaps humorous ideas on new shows. Let’s face it, the whole genre is stale now, but many forms of televised failure remain to be explored.
From the first episode of Survivor, it was pretty obvious that reality TV has nothing to […]

By Paul -- 9 comments

June 12th, 2008

Lamest Excuse Award: Judge Alex Kozinski

Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski has already scored the biggest loser award for having a website full of perverted sexual filth. (Harsh words, but I hate the competition).
The lurid details of the site’s contents are well known, but the judge really hasn’t been castigated sufficiently for the stupidity of his excuse for the […]

By Paul -- 0 comments

April 15th, 2008

Uncle Spam Wants You: Typo Puts the Kibosh on E-mail Tax Refund Scam

Can you spot the typo and sentence fragment in this spam e-mail claiming to be from the IRS?
Maybe the government just needs a proofreader, but I’m not clicking on that link (which is disabled here).
Anyone else getting these?
After the last annual calculations […]

By Paul -- 1 comment

April 6th, 2008

Trojan Virus Come-Ons We’d Like To See

Last week I ranted about the annoying spam e-mails that used a “Shakira in Sex Threesome” subject line to lure in suckers. Opening the e-mail released a heinous Trojan virus.
I didn’t fall for that one, but it got me to thinking about all the insane spam or GAM (Garbage E-Mail) headers I’ve mercilessly deleted […]

By Paul -- 0 comments

March 18th, 2008

Migden to Pay Huge Campaign Fine Out of Campaign Funds

Carole Migden has been called onto the carpet for the original San Francisco Treat: graft. The Senator, a doppleganger for The Simpsons’ Sideshow Bob, allegedly failed to itemize $397,000 in campaign expense credit card charges over a seven year period.
Migden’s spending habits appear to parallel her driving: you don’t want to be on the […]

By Paul -- 0 comments

March 11th, 2008

Spitzer: Main Course at the Feast of Hypocrites

New York governor Eliot Spitzer is on the brink of disaster, thanks to a federal complaint that names him as defendant number nine in a prostitution investigation. And the media couldn’t be happier.
Lord knows, I love a juicy political and/or tawdry sex scandal as much as anyone, but I’ll be sorry to see Spitzer […]

By Paul -- 2 comments

February 21st, 2008

San Francicso’s $160,000 Greenwashing Job

The only thing I don’t like about absurdly high-paying jobs with no apparent work involved is that I can’t get one myself.
Others, however, are more skilled in this area, like Wade Crowfoot, who is now engaged in $160,000 of annual ChaChingaLingus as the new “director of climate protection initiatives.”
After news of the new position came […]

By Paul -- 0 comments

February 14th, 2008

Barry Bonds Strikes Out Again: Former Star Flunked Juice Test in 2000

The Bonds juice trial saw evidence that Bonds failed a steroid test a month after his home run record season in 2000.
Does anyone know how much money we’ve paid this egotistical a**hole to lead the Giants to last place?
In a town where several hundred homeless die of exposure on the streets every year, we […]

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February 6th, 2008

Craigs Dregs: Craigslist Hitman Ad Leads to Indictment

Michigan resident Ann Marie Linscott has been indicted for using Craigslist to find someone to murder the wife of the guy Linscott has been banging.
Much remains unknown in the murder-for-hire solicitation case:
Which category did Linscott place the ad in? It was presumably a gigs ad, but which kind of gigs?
Craigslist is obviously the wrong […]

By Paul -- 0 comments

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