‘Stupid Masterminds!’ (2012)

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Prof. Moriarty, as captured in Strand Magazine

It’s pretty much a ghost town here this morning, with zero comments and just three likes, and one reader sort of standing in the empty street wondering where everybody went. Oh, well… We have not yet recovered from July.

Meanwhile, why are our real-life villains so stupid compared to fictional villains?

Stupid Masterminds!

And this was written years before anybody thought we ought to have a senile Joe Biden for our president and a Green New Deal to murder our economy–just in case any of it survives the coronavirus panic. Our villains hatch schemes that are guaranteed to fail!

But at least they all get rich, doing it. No one comes home poor from Capitol Hill.

Bonus Video: A Good Robbery Gone Bad

From a security camera somewhere in China:

There are many ways for a crime to go wrong, but this is a new one on me–throw a brick at the store window and conk your partner in the head. Knocked him out colder than a mackerel. That put the kibosh on the caper. If these guys were working for Dr. Fu Manchu, he ain’t gonna be too pleased with them.

Just had to add this: “Why, the crime rate in this town’s so bad, you can’t throw a brick without hittin’ a robber!”