Well, DUH!

These are from my Well, DUH! page-a-day calendar.  I'm inclined to strongly agree with the last one.

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Dumb Moments in the Lives of Famous People

Not all presidents need scientific advisors.  Ronald Reagan, for example, found it more efficient to invent his own science.  Here's Reagan on the campaign trail dismissing the dangers of atomic energy:  "All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."  That would have been one amazing desk, big enough to cover up the 25 tons of nuclear waste produced each year by an atomic power plant.

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International Idiocy

The world's first parking tickets were given out in Nineveh (now Iraq) over 2,000 years ago to people who parked their chariots on the king's road.  The fine?  Death by impalement.

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Dumb Ways to Die

An industrial filmmaker was killed when he stood up in the back of a pickup to get a shot as the truck went under a low overpass.  Awful way to go, but a terrible irony, too.  When he was struck, the cameraman was shooting a safety film on the dangers of freeway overpasses.

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know but Were Too Smart to Ask

Why do the idiots always rise to the top?

They're handpicked by the top brass, who don't want someone smart coming in and making them look bad by comparison.