‘How Stupid Can It Get?’ (2015)

Trivia: Why Was The Triceratops Sick In 'Jurassic Park'?

Start a riot–these Haters killed a dinosaur!

Forty thousand ninnies thronged Facebook, back when, to protest what they thought was the shooting of a Triceratops. The fact that there are no more Triceratopses, no living human has ever seen one, did not register. All the ninnies were college-educated.

How Stupid Can It Get?

The protest attracted one of the grand poobahs of Serious Mainstream Litterature, Joyce Carol Oates, famous for writing short stories that melt into incoherence at the end. She was very upset that Stephen Spielberg allowed a dinosaur to be shot–there are so few of them left!

Wish we could say the same for colleges and universities.

How Stupid Can It Get?

What would you think if you saw a picture of Stephen Spielberg posing with the animatronic “sick Triceratops” from Jurassic Park? If you’re a normal person, you’d think, “Hey, that’s the sick Triceratops from Jurassic Park, and that’s Stephen Spielberg.”

But what if someone told you it was a “recreational hunter” who had just killed this defenseless animal and was posing with the body?

“No–that’s Stephen Spielberg, and that’s one of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.

But here’s what you get when stupid liberals, who think they’re smart, see the picture ( https://www.yahoo.com/movies/jurassic-park-photo-joyce-carol-oates-121208529972.html ). “Oh, no! He shot the poor defenseless animal! I’ll bet it’s an endangered species! Oh, Save the Planet!”

Some 40,000 ninnies protested on Facebook. To add zest to the report, one of those 40,000 ninnies was academic literary icon Joyce Carol Oates, famous for writing stories that wind up making very little sense but that’s why interllecturals like ’em.

To qualify for this degree of jidroolitude, you have to be so out of it that 1) you don’t recognize Spielberg when you see him, 2) you never saw Jurassic Park, much less read the novel (“But it was by Michael Crichton, and he’s B-A-D, a Global Warming denier!”), and 3) you were so busy eating tofu as a child that you never played with toy dinosaurs and you don’t recognize a Triceratops when you see one, despite your master’s degree in Social Justice and Feminist Literature.

They run our universities. They run our public schools. They run our news and entertainment media. And they vote.