Proof that Darwin Was Right: The Iraq-Iran Hikers
The ”Darwin Award” is conferred on individuals who unknowingly gave their all in the inadvertent interests of preserving humanity’s gene pool by expiring in the process of committing acts of amazing stupidity and thereby removing themselves from the danger of further corrupting the genetic makeup of the human species.
Without referencing darwinism and the survival of the fittest, Spike TV features any number of deserving Darwin Awards winners on “1000 Ways to Die,” a ghoulish series on how people meet their Maker via wooden-headed choices.
Usually conferred posthumously, exceptions should be granted for giving a “Darwin” to the recently-released Iraq, (or was it Iran?) hikers.
Most Americans were delighted when Shane Bower and Josh Fattal were finally set free by the Iranians and were able to re-join fellow hiker Sarah Shourd on American soil after what the HuffingtonPost.com a 2-year “saga,” a term most often reserved to describe heroic adventures rather than idiotic blunders.
America may be desperate for heroes but Bower, Fattal, and Shourd hardly fit the bill.
In an impressive display of Islamic magnanimity toward a gender customarily stoned to death for much less grievous offenses than violating Iranian territorial integrity–and alleged spying–Shourd was released in 2010.
All three had been captured the year before as they blithely traversed the Iraq-Iran border since, apparently, the millions of acres of national parkland, untrammeled mountains, woods, and deserts available to hikers throughout the United States and other civilized countries held no attraction or opportunities for adventure.
Instead Bower, Fattal, and Shourd chose what they believed to be Iraq’s Kurdish region, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5563.)
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DARWIN AWARDS 2008
DARWIN AWARDS 2008
“Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.”
It must be granted that the annual Darwin Awards, as ghoulish as they are, serve as reminders to residents of Planet Earth that a whole lot of stupidity exists on the third rock from the sun.
They “celebrate” people who have committed some of the dumbest stunts imaginable, which stunts usually result in a fatality thereby substantiating Charles Darwin’s theory that only the fittest beasts and other life forms of the Earth survive. The others, those that don’t make the cut such as the Labrador duck or the hog-nose skunk, don’t necessarily shuffle off this mortal coil into oblivion and extinction due to stupidity but rather misfortune.
Not so with the human beast, the human species, as recognized by the contemporary Darwin Awards. Homo sapiens seem to thrive on stupidity.
The official Darwin Awards website, http://www.darwinawards.com/, features the chosen mottos of the organization, including, “Chlorinating the Gene Pool,” “Where Evolution Hits the Pavement,” and “The Tree of Life is Self-Pruning,” all of which, although harsh, are easily verifiable by news events large and small.
That website also includes a quotation from the late, acerbic comic and social observer, George Carlin: “Just think how stupid the average person is,
and then realize that half of them are even stupider!”
Past Darwin Awards have been given to Texas public officials investigating the causes of an accidental, double electrocution who attempted to recreate the scene of the deadly mishap, resulting in the double electrocution of the two investigators. Another Texas winner was the alcoholic with a throat ailment who couldn’t drink his favorite adult beverage so gave himself an enema of 3 litres of sherry and was dead the next morning. Finally, showing that Texans don’t have a dumb monopoly, there was the story coming out of Ghana in which a tribesman covered himself with a lotion thought to make him impervious to bullets and invited fellow tribesmen to shoot at him, and he was promptly killed.
Dumb tales are legion.
The winner for 2008 as determined by votes of Darwin aficionados was “The Balloon Priest.” The good father’s heart was in the right place, raising funds for charity, but his lawn chair was in the wrong place, attached to clustered, helium-filled balloons. Emulating a previous effort, by “Lawn Chair Larry” in 1982...
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)
“Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.”
It must be granted that the annual Darwin Awards, as ghoulish as they are, serve as reminders to residents of Planet Earth that a whole lot of stupidity exists on the third rock from the sun.
They “celebrate” people who have committed some of the dumbest stunts imaginable, which stunts usually result in a fatality thereby substantiating Charles Darwin’s theory that only the fittest beasts and other life forms of the Earth survive. The others, those that don’t make the cut such as the Labrador duck or the hog-nose skunk, don’t necessarily shuffle off this mortal coil into oblivion and extinction due to stupidity but rather misfortune.
Not so with the human beast, the human species, as recognized by the contemporary Darwin Awards. Homo sapiens seem to thrive on stupidity.
The official Darwin Awards website, http://www.darwinawards.com/, features the chosen mottos of the organization, including, “Chlorinating the Gene Pool,” “Where Evolution Hits the Pavement,” and “The Tree of Life is Self-Pruning,” all of which, although harsh, are easily verifiable by news events large and small.
That website also includes a quotation from the late, acerbic comic and social observer, George Carlin: “Just think how stupid the average person is,
and then realize that half of them are even stupider!”
Past Darwin Awards have been given to Texas public officials investigating the causes of an accidental, double electrocution who attempted to recreate the scene of the deadly mishap, resulting in the double electrocution of the two investigators. Another Texas winner was the alcoholic with a throat ailment who couldn’t drink his favorite adult beverage so gave himself an enema of 3 litres of sherry and was dead the next morning. Finally, showing that Texans don’t have a dumb monopoly, there was the story coming out of Ghana in which a tribesman covered himself with a lotion thought to make him impervious to bullets and invited fellow tribesmen to shoot at him, and he was promptly killed.
Dumb tales are legion.
The winner for 2008 as determined by votes of Darwin aficionados was “The Balloon Priest.” The good father’s heart was in the right place, raising funds for charity, but his lawn chair was in the wrong place, attached to clustered, helium-filled balloons. Emulating a previous effort, by “Lawn Chair Larry” in 1982...
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)
DARWIN AWARDS 2008
DARWIN AWARDS 2008
“Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.”
It must be granted that the annual Darwin Awards, as ghoulish as they are, serve as reminders to residents of Planet Earth that a whole lot of stupidity exists on the third rock from the sun.
They “celebrate” people who have committed some of the dumbest stunts imaginable, which stunts usually result in a fatality thereby substantiating Charles Darwin’s theory that only the fittest beasts and other life forms of the Earth survive. The others, those that don’t make the cut such as the Labrador duck or the hog-nose skunk, don’t necessarily shuffle off this mortal coil into oblivion and extinction due to stupidity but rather misfortune.
Not so with the human beast, the human species, as recognized by the contemporary Darwin Awards. Homo sapiens seem to thrive on stupidity.
The official Darwin Awards website, http://www.darwinawards.com/, features the chosen mottos of the organization, including, “Chlorinating the Gene Pool,” “Where Evolution Hits the Pavement,” and “The Tree of Life is Self-Pruning,” all of which, although harsh, are easily verifiable by news events large and small.
That website also includes a quotation from the late, acerbic comic and social observer, George Carlin: “Just think how stupid the average person is,
and then realize that half of them are even stupider!”
Past Darwin Awards have been given to Texas public officials investigating the causes of an accidental, double electrocution who attempted to recreate the scene of the deadly mishap, resulting in the double electrocution of the two investigators. Another Texas winner was the alcoholic with a throat ailment who couldn’t drink his favorite adult beverage so gave himself an enema of 3 litres of sherry and was dead the next morning. Finally, showing that Texans don’t have a dumb monopoly, there was the story coming out of Ghana in which a tribesman covered himself with a lotion thought to make him impervious to bullets and invited fellow tribesmen to shoot at him, and he was promptly killed.
Dumb tales are legion.
The winner for 2008 as determined by votes of Darwin aficionados was “The Balloon Priest.” The good father’s heart was in the right place, raising funds for charity, but his lawn chair was in the wrong place, attached to clustered, helium-filled balloons. Emulating a previous effort, by “Lawn Chair Larry” in 1982...
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)
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