Algebra for Self-Appointed Dummies

Yup: this is algebra...

One of the Antisocial Network staffers was spending a few minutes on Facebook the other day when she ran across a post by a friend – probably spurred by one of those moronic meme-makers – about "What Is the Most Useless Class in School." The original poster opined that it was algebra, and a lot of his friends agreed (probably more than half). Our staffer was most amused, however, by a pair of posters (both 50-something women, for what little that's worth) who boldly stated that 1) they didn't do numbers and 2) algebra is stupid. A third commenter attempted to pull them back from the brink of innumeracy... the names (and some of the wording) have been changed to protect the guilty:

Government Employees for Dummies

Trump Proposed Budget Cuts per CNN

Every once in a while someone says something stupid on social media. OK, stop laughing – we know that the ratio of stupidity to common sense on Facebook is about 15:1, and on Twitter it's even worse (especially when @ Real Donald Trump is out there tweeting). But we did see something recently that we found just plain moronic, a statement by a FOAF (that's an initialism from Snopes.com for "Friend Of A Friend") by the name of Michael Leslie. Mike's obviously been drinking too much Kool-Aid...

Citizenship Tests for Dummies

Obtaining U S citizenship through naturalization

If there's any place on the Internet where dumbassery is more common than in the Demand Media family, it will almost certainly be somewhere in the cesspool commonly known as "social media." With that in mind, our peeps dipped their collective toe in the murky water post-election to see what some of the more... erudite... among their acquaintances and their friends had to say. We found plenty, and decided to share one example with you. Someone from the Indianapolis, Indiana, area told his friends that,

Political Blindness, Scientific Illiteracy, and Dummies

You probably already knew this, but for those who didn't here's a truism we've noticed many a time here at the Antisocial Network headquarters: whether the topic is climate change, vaccines, pollution, or any other complex question; pretty soon some politician (or troll) is going to utter a sentence beginning with that now-famous phrase, "I'm not a scientist but..." When you hear those words, you can be fairly certain you're about to be transported to the Scientific Illiteracy Zone. What's perhaps saddest is that way too many people live there 24/7/365.