The Dunning-Kruger Diaries

9 Replies to “The Dunning-Kruger Diaries”

1. That video is pretty scary. There is some Grade A Top Shelf Prime Cut Mental Illness on display there.

2. My highly tuned sense of good taste kept me from clicking on the video … after one glance at the still photo. I have gotten really good at averting my eyes from every train wreck and car crash as I drive by. I will take your word for how awful it all is.

3. Mental illness manifests itself in so many ways these days, especially evident among the intelligentsia that accepts this kind of sickness as normal. Another example of the depravity that is acceptable these days.

4. I hope know one is paying to see this crap. If anyone thinks this art they are cr*zy. Ken on June 7th, 2016at 10:21am is correct!

5. Ah, but it’s a way of *expression*, right? That means it’s eligible for a federal arts grant, funded by the Canadian taxpayer.

6. Is there an audience? You know, paying customers? Oh yeah, taxpayer-funded, my mistake. The government has lots of money, yours and mine. I know this is from NYC, but ALL governments blow money like this and claim it is for the general good of the population.
   Convince me! And the governments want to run everyone’s lives…

7. Another allegory of government use of arbitrary power for its own sake.
   “The Lemonade Menace.”
   Alexandra Scott, who became famous as the founder of Alex’s Lemonade Stand, was an unusual girl in many ways. Before her initial treatment for neuroblastoma, physicians told her family that even if she beat the cancer, she would never walk. That news was delivered on her first birthday. She walked, and she did a great deal more than that.”
   Alex was, unlike most children her age, very much aware that this was not the case for all children, and so she launched, with her brother’s help, a lemonade stand, with the intention of using her profits to help other children with cancer. They raised $2,000, which is a fair amount of money for a lemonade stand. One assumes that a few of those Main Line bankers and heiresses were paying $100 a cup. Once her story hit the headlines — we do sometimes forget that the press can be an awesome instrument for good — that $2,000 became $1 million, & that $1 million became a movement, with children around the country opening their own summer lemonade stands in tribute to Alex and, later, in tribute to her memory.”
   Alex died of cancer at age eight.”
   It was inevitable that men with guns would shut this down. As the idea of selling lemonade for charitable purposes caught on, police around the country and the turbocharged bureaucracies behind them found themselves faced with an unexpected public menace: outlaw lemonade. Alex’s Lemonade stands around the country were shut down by armed men at the behest of city health inspectors, tax collectors, licensing czars — and for-profit competitors.”
   n Philadelphia, police were sent to shut down an Alex’s Lemonade stand for want of a permit and a hand-sanitizing station. (Philadelphia had 320 murders that year.) In the Hamptons, Jerry Seinfeld’s family was visited by police for selling lemonade to support a charity founded by the comedian’s wife. In Wisconsin, vendors resenting the competition demanded a stand be closed, and so it was. New York City insists that Alex’s Lemonade stands be licensed city concessions, like hot-dog stands; do treat your four-year-old to a bedtime reading of “Title 12 of the Rules of the City of New York,” which has 17 section headings and dozens of subsections, every jot and tittle of which must be satisfied.”
   Your toddler may need a lawyer.” Limited government works because it chokes off resources statists can use to run our lives and lemonade stands. Replace the family and charity with reliance on the state, the socialist goal since at least 1917.
   http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436267/lemonade-stand-government-overregulation-killing-entrepreneurship-fundraising

8. “My highly tuned sense of good taste kept me from clicking on the video … ”
   Yup…plus the fact that there were two flies fornicating on the window – immensely more interesting, understandable, and light years ahead of this in worth.

9. Jamie, were they fruit flies? Dr. Bazooki may be able to comment on something he actually studied! Alert the media.