Today, what I consider two really big news stories broke.

[conuly]

One concerning an actor who apparently faked his own hate crime, and the other concerning a member of the Coast Guard who was apparently planning a massive terrorist attack, explicitly because he's a huge bigot against minorities.

I'm a little perplexed by the proportion of coverage these two stories are getting in my news sources. Not perplexed. More like disturbed.

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How (Not) To Be An Evil Overlord

[nodrog]

Yes, that’s it:  The Facepalm.  I can hear Ren, the chihuahua from Ren and Stimpy, saying, “You ee-diot!”

What’s unsettling is to realize that we only heard of this guy because of what he was doing.  How many others, ordinary people in life and business and health care &c., need this?

[There was a crime of moral turpitude a year or so ago (is the Mann Act still in force?) where the participants sent messages which they then deleted after reading, not realizing that “deleted” entries still exist intact, they’ve merely been removed from view.  (Try it yourself - post a comment, Cntrl-C the link to it, delete the comment - even hold down Shift, which is supposed to totally delete it - and then in a new tab Cntrl-V that link.  Ding!  “deleted comment” - the link still works.  Odd, that…  And it always will.)

That wasn’t their only stupidity, but it’s an example of why they got caught.  They both totally flunked their IQ tests.]