Sometimes you wonder what people are thinking

Every now and again I come across something that is unbelievably dumb. It seems that there is currently an epidemic of very stupid things in the news. I don’t have space enough to cover them all, so I have selected three that my old friend Oscar would say, “are as dumb as a whole box of rocks.”

It should come as no surprise that the second runner-up comes from the far side of the Cascades. It seems that King County is suing the five major oil companies for global warming. The petition alleges that the oil companies provided the gasoline that caused the problem and knowingly withheld informatio...