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Welcome to another edition of “Today in Stoopid Stupid.” Fortunately, there is never any shortage of material for these posts.

To wit:

*Sam Hawgood, a pediatrician -- and the chancellor of U.C. San Francisco School of Medicine — recently appeared before a congressional hearing on DEI in med schools to state, “the vast majority of pregnancies are in women.”

The vast majority, you say? That is like saying the “vast majority” of those born will pass away at some point. Or, the “vast majority” of people with fully functioning vaginas are women. Brilliant. Thank God for medical experts.

*After Egypt’s loss to Argentina in the FIFA World Cup, Egyptian commentator Mohammed Nour posted a video in which he claimed Israel was to blame for his country’s 3-2 loss.

Say what?! Nour claimed that Yair Netanyahu, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was somehow involved — and added, "We played against Argentina, but also against FIFA and Israel.” Alrighty then. Of course, Egyptian authorities also once detained a stork on suspicion of it being an Israeli spy. True story. The vile but ever-growing ranks of antisemites now have something else to hang on the Jews. Lose a game? Blame Israel!

*Speaking of stupid, Americans are reading less, and, in many cases, dramatically so. It is not much of an exaggeration to say that we are entering a postliterate world. (As reading skills decline, so does writing competency.) More troubling yet, IQ scores have been falling lately, too. And it’s no coincidence that the decline in reading skills and intelligence is happening simultaneously. But what the hell, we have AI, right?

*The NOAA currently estimates that there is an 81% chance that there will be a “Super” El Niño during the months of October thru December, perhaps the strongest recorded since 1950. And, right on cue, “aid” groups such as CARE are warning that this unusually strong El Niño could worsen health and humanitarian risks for women, particularly those in “marginalized” communities already adversely affected by food insecurity, water shortages, and reduced access to medical care.

According to an article purportedly by “John Ghost,” from a publication called “When In Your State,” we must understand that “Women can face disproportionate harm during disasters because existing inequalities often increase their caregiving responsibilities, exposure to violence, and difficulty accessing health services and financial resources.”

Bad weather disproportionately affects women? First of all, there aren’t any systemic existing inequalities, at least not ones disfavoring women. And is it still not the case that far more men than women are firefighters, storm chasers, police officers, National Guard members, ambulance drivers, construction workers, and the like?

You can’t fix stupid. But you can laugh at it.

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