Thoughtless for the Day

Until roughly three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon I had lived a blissful existence among the forest folk, but then I heard, for the very first time, the name Sherri Shepherd. Since then I have been a shell of my former self.

Sherri Shepherd is one of the co-hosts on The View and...well, you've probably heard about this already, but in case you haven't, here's the actual footage:

Yeah, you head that correctly. Not only does Sherri Shepherd not believe in Evolution (which is bad, but we've all heard other intellectually challenged Fundies make that statement before), but she manages to break knew ground on the landscape of idiocy by following that up with a confession that she doesn't know whether or not the Earth is flat or round, thereby achieving a feat that was previously believed to be impossible: making Whoopi Goldberg, who only a few days earlier had defended man's best friend's worst enemy, Michael Vick, look intelligent by comparison.

Saying that you don't believe in Evolution and then backing up that statement by proclaiming your ignorance of the solar system is tantamount to saying "I don't believe in gravity. Oh, and by the way, I am a total fuckin' smegtard"

Her excuse was that she had been too busy feeding her kids to take time to learn about the shape of the third planet from the sun. Look, if you not sure if the earth is flat or not, then how the fuck can you be sure that those are your kids you're busy feeding?

So, if I became aware of this cornucopia of horror on Tuesday, why am I waiting until now to write about it? Well, it took a few days for the shock and disbelief to wear off. After that I decided that stupidity on such a grand scale should not either be forgotten or go unpunished. Here's a link to the message board on the good Shepherd's web site. Two words: Darryl Worley.

If Sherri Shepherd ever leaves The View, she can easily be replaced by JoAn Karkos.

While not a celebrity in the strictest sense of the word, Ms. Karkos is a superstarin the world of Competitive Stupidity. Karkos, a sixty-four-year-old prune with legs who resides in the unfortunate hamlet of Lewiston, Maine, somehow wandered into a public library (no doubt confusing it for a Kroger) where her wrinkled hands found a copy of It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health. The book, first published nearly fifteen years ago, is a popular educational guide for young people that deals with human sexuality. It has been translated into twenty-one languages and can be purchased in twenty-five countries were women don't wear burkas. JoAn checked the book out and then checked out another copy from another library. Then Karkos sent letters to both libraries stating that, through her bifocals, she had been "sufficiently horrified of the illustrations and the sexually graphic, amoral abnormal contents" and that she would "not be returning the books."

And it gets better.

Included in each letter was a check $20.95.

Dear Kroger,
I was recently so sufficiently horrified by the three pairs of socks that I shoplifted from your store that I am refusing to return them. Here's a check for $11.63 to cover the cost of the socks.

PS. I am a total fuckin' smegtard

Karkos' goal? "Hopefully, this will harness enough people to be sufficiently horrified and want to speak out, to say it's gone too far,"

And has it worked so far? Has the public been sufficiently horrified? Um...not exactly.

Not only have the libraries planning to replace the books, but one of the libraries has had to order two additional copies to meet demand for the book after a local newspaper published a sufficiently horrifying letter-to-the-editor from Karkos bitching about the book.

What a total fuckin' smegtard