Here’s the Dumbest Thing People Are Doing (With Cars) Right Now

This week, the National Transportation Safety Board issued a statement urging people to stop jumping out of moving vehicles in order to dance. That’s the kind of folksy wisdom we appreciate from the government, but we were curious as to what spurred it. Apparently, youths everywhere are engaging in a social media challenge where they […]

‘Is Putin a CIA agent?’ NYT’s ‘dumbest paragraphs ever printed’ ridiculed online

From the newspaper that brought you headlines like “Mother Russia crashes the Oscars,” and “What homoerotic videos can teach us about modern Russia,” comes another smash hit: “Is Putin a CIA agent?” In the lauded journalist’s latest column, Thomas Friedman poses his ridiculous question, before unloading on the Russian leader in fourteen paragraphs of unfounded […]

‘We’re not the pizza department’: San Antonio police on dumbest 911 calls (VIDEO)

The San Antonio Police Department released a video of the strangest reasons people call 911. The video aims to remind people not to call the number unless it’s a real emergency. Police Chief William McManus reads a selection of the most trivial 911 calls made in the area in the Facebook video. All the calls […]

Trump has endorsed Mitt Romney — the man he once called the ‘dumbest and worst candidate in history’

Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney in his run for a Senate seat in Utah. Trump urged people to vote for Romney in 2012, but the two criticized each other heavily during the 2016 election campaign. The history of their relationship can be seen from Trump’s many tweets about Romney over the […]

Congratulations, America. Here were some of your dumbest hurricane ideas

Enlarge / Coast Guard and Air Force personnel remove supplies and gear from an Air Force HC-130 aircraft in Opalocka, Florida, on September 9. They risk their lives to save yours. (credit: US Coast Guard) I’ve spent the better part of the last month forecasting and writing about hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and between my work […]

E3 by idiots, for idiots: Ars takes on expo’s weirdest games, dumbest ideas

(video link) LOS ANGELES—Somebody thought adding 10,000 more people to E3’s crowds was a good idea, and that somebody should be punished. Ars’ recommendation: make them watch our resident yokels, Sam Machkovech and Lee Hutchinson, roam the overcrowded expo’s halls in one of Ars’ most ridiculous videos ever made. It’s safe-for-work, we swear, but it may […]

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Just Said the Dumbest Thing of 2017

Image: AP Photo/Richard Drew Upcoming film The Circle appears to be about a bearded white guy who runs a technology company that (I guess, based on the trailers) preaches connectivity and positive disruption but exists as a front to mine personal data. Haven’t seen it yet. Jack Dorsey, the white, bearded CEO of Twitter, decided […]