<![CDATA[stupidity - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports]]>https://sfist.com/https://sfist.com/favicon.pngstupidity - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sportshttps://sfist.com/Ghost 2.12Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:39:06 GMT60<![CDATA[The Jesse Helms HIV/AIDS Bill?]]>https://sfist.com/2008/07/16/isnt_it_ironic_dont_cha_think/5c24264044ad066cdcf3cf5bWed, 16 Jul 2008 10:45:15 GMTWe don't think there are many people who would consider politicians as containing much in the way of a sense of humor or any sense of irony, but in an awesome move of political satire, Republican Senator Libby Dole of North Carolina added an amendment to an AIDS bill now winding its way through the Senate that would name it after recently deceased senator Jesse Helms. The bill would give about $50 billion dollars in funding to fight HIV/AIDS and other diseases around the world and with it, a possible lifting of a travel ban on people with HIV. What makes the amendment such a great bit of political satire (right up there with the New Yorker cover) is that Helms was a long time racist and homophobe who said any number of things against people (queer, straight, black, brown, etc.) with AIDS, and fought any and all funding against it. In fact, it was Helms who created the travel ban on people with HIV. (R.I.P, Helms. If that's at all possible.)

Oh wait...this just in....it's not a bit of satire. Dole is completely serious about what she's doing.

This story makes our head hurt.

]]><![CDATA["Stupidest Bike Lane in America" Found in LA]]>https://sfist.com/2008/03/31/stupidest_bike/5c24235244ad066cdcf24672Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:15:33 GMT

Slate magazine claims to have found the "stupidest bike lane in America"... down in LoCal, of course.

We here at SFist like to think that a bike lane is a bike lane, and that a short bike lane is still better than no bike lane. And no bike lane, of course, is what San Francisco has added since the City tried to short-cut environmental review and got nabbed by anti-bike gadfly Rob Anderson, whose suit resulted in an injunction against the addition of new bike lanes.

Slate challenges readers to find a stupider bike lane than the 275' of Gayley Avenue in Westwood. We found one right on our block. It doesn't exist at all, and that's pretty stupid.

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