Posted On: Friday - May 22nd 2026 9:33PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders General Stupidity Music Geography
Weirdly, 3 out of 4 of this post's assigned 3 topic keys are together in alphabetical order. That's doesn't begin to compete with the weirdness enclosed herein though.
On our old "About" page (20th Century web term there!), What is Peek Stoopiditee?, we included just two sentences referencing the Geography of Stupidity. (Sounds like a great interdisciplinary field to major in!):
There are many theories of the origin and modes of transmittal of this stupidity, though, as often is the case, it is speculated that epicenter was the southern and central coasts of California. Other theories point to New York City, Washington, FS, and/or Karl Marx's ass.Over the years, stupidity has spread throughout this land, but there are still some major axes, or trunk arteries of stupidity, if you will.
It might be cool to make one of those "heat maps". Though the colors used often seem to represent the Climate Calamity or something, a heat map is nothing but a thematic map that uses a muted rainbow of colors, often yellow through deep red, rather than circles of varying diameters (remember these?) Base maps for something like this could be a basic States of the Union map, a US map with county lines, whatever.
When you read something like the following article, you can just the imagine the shade of stupidity that it would be represented by on a Stupidity Heat Map. Here goes:Seattle LGBT Commission Demands Taxpayer-Funded Housing and ‘State of Emergency’ for ‘Trans Refugees’ Fleeing Republican States, Socialist Mayor Promises Action Despite $175 Million Budget Deficit. Seattle, Washington is in a beautiful area of the country. The people have ruined it. I can believe it's in a State of Emergency all in there, but ... trans refugees? Trans-continental refugees, do they mean?
The commission claims “tens of thousands” of “trans refugees” have fled to Seattle in order to escape “genocidal and vile legislation” passed in Republican states that restrict sex change procedures for minors.As has been said before, the weirdos, we'll always have with us. Were I one of these particular types of Weirdo, of course I'd flee too from a Republican run State in which I was to be hunted down and exterminated. However, that's not it - I read the fine print, so I'll just translate this into non-weirdo-speak:
In an official statement, the advisory body demanded the city immediately step up with housing “run by trans orgs for trans people,” pay unemployed volunteers who are “fighting full-time against this crisis,” and offer protection from the federal government.
These people have fled to Seattle as refugees from States where the non-weirdos WILL NOT PAY for them to have their dicks or titties removed and to take hormones that will modify their bodies and brains.No, there's more:
There are refugees in Seattle who have escaped States in which children aren't allowed to decide themselves to have their dicks or titties removed and to take hormones that will modify their bodies and brains.
Flee, flee, my pretty!! Does this not deserve, if not a deep purple, at least a very dark burnt orange on any Stupidity Heat Map available? Even 10 years ago, that color might represent, I dunno, a city where a Moslem or Communist could be elected Mayor. That'd be a deep orange anyway, and for a place where a Moslem who is also a Communist, yeah, bright purple, at least.
Stupidity may peak first in Seattle, Washington. If it peaks elsewhere, than that just means I'll be a refugee myself. But, I don't... want... to live like a refugee (don't wanna live like a refugee-ee.
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some... Yeah, at the very least!
It's not his best song by any means, but Tom Petty's Refugee was at the forefront of the Rock Reconquista of Disco at the very end of the 1970s. There was Disco Demolition Night (what a country!) at the Chicago White Sox game in mid-July of '79, right at the time Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were recording Damn the Torpedos from which the above song comes.* However, it was a few more decades for Disco to be declared verboten - we can thank the Covid Nineteen for that, a silver lining in a really dark cloud. Disco, however, would only be a mustard yellow (not even dijon but French's) on a 2026 Stupidity Heat Map.
* One of my favorites on that album is Louisiana Rain.
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The Alarmist
Saturday - May 23rd 2026 5:02AM MST
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It could be funnier … er, worse though …
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From US Hostility to Dutch Camp Reality
Dutch immigration authorities reported that 76 US citizens claimed asylum in the Netherlands last year, a dramatic rise from just nine applicants in 2024. According to reports, many have been housed in a designated 'queer block' at the overcrowded Ter Apel application centre, a facility frequently compared to a prison.
Residents describe a grim environment. The small, college-dormitory style rooms are reportedly covered in graffiti, with some asylum seekers alleging they suspect bodily fluids have been smeared on the walls. The camp has guards at every gate, and while inhabitants can leave, they must return for daily bed checks. A small allowance is provided for food to be cooked in communal kitchens.
Their reasons for fleeing are deeply personal. Elliot Hefty, a 37-year-old transgender man from Kentucky, claims he was pushed to the ground and subjected to slurs during a lunchtime walk, left "bleeding in the middle of the street." He also alleges losing a client-facing role with Medicaid and being denied service in shops where owners reportedly said his '"tranny money" was no good here.'
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More here: https://britbrief.co.uk/politics/immigration/us-transgender-asylum-seekers-face-dutch-camp-reality.html
When I was a teen, I worked in a steakhouse, and one of our kitchen staff was a guy we called Bill, a former Nicaraguan National Guard guy with a very dark past (think Right Wing Death Squads) who loved and sang along with that Tom Petty song. Think of “That ‘70s Show” character Fez singing it, and you get the picture.
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It could be funnier … er, worse though …
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From US Hostility to Dutch Camp Reality
Dutch immigration authorities reported that 76 US citizens claimed asylum in the Netherlands last year, a dramatic rise from just nine applicants in 2024. According to reports, many have been housed in a designated 'queer block' at the overcrowded Ter Apel application centre, a facility frequently compared to a prison.
Residents describe a grim environment. The small, college-dormitory style rooms are reportedly covered in graffiti, with some asylum seekers alleging they suspect bodily fluids have been smeared on the walls. The camp has guards at every gate, and while inhabitants can leave, they must return for daily bed checks. A small allowance is provided for food to be cooked in communal kitchens.
Their reasons for fleeing are deeply personal. Elliot Hefty, a 37-year-old transgender man from Kentucky, claims he was pushed to the ground and subjected to slurs during a lunchtime walk, left "bleeding in the middle of the street." He also alleges losing a client-facing role with Medicaid and being denied service in shops where owners reportedly said his '"tranny money" was no good here.'
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More here: https://britbrief.co.uk/politics/immigration/us-transgender-asylum-seekers-face-dutch-camp-reality.html
When I was a teen, I worked in a steakhouse, and one of our kitchen staff was a guy we called Bill, a former Nicaraguan National Guard guy with a very dark past (think Right Wing Death Squads) who loved and sang along with that Tom Petty song. Think of “That ‘70s Show” character Fez singing it, and you get the picture.
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I don't particularly believe Mr. Hefty's claims at first read either. Haha, on the Nicaraguan former Death Squad guy and his singing..