Announcing ‘This Stupid Day’ 2.0

Posted November 13, 2023, 5:29 p.m.

Back in 2017, I launched This Stupid Day, a useful website that defines each day as some stupid made-up holiday. Today, I’m pleased to announce a new update. Here are some of the highlights:

Newly revised holidays! I went through the list and made a ton of updates. A bunch of the holidays have been replaced, updated, or reworded.
Subscriptions! If you can’t be bothered to go to the website, you can now get This Stupid Day as a free Amazon Alexa flash briefing, a WebCal subscription, or a downloadable ICS file. Add it to your Google and Outlook calendars. Do it now.
Improved Technology! This is hard to believe, but 2017 was six years ago. The site needed some updates. It looks better and loads faster now.
Rebranding! For some reason, I originally put This Stupid Day under Intersanity Enterprises. Normally that’s where my “serious” tech projects live. That didn’t make sense. Now it’s a “personal” project under the Scott Bradford Creative Enterprises umbrella (just like this website is).
An “About” Page! This Stupid Day now has an “About” page all its own! Wow!

With This Stupid Day’s help, you will never miss another National Eat Food Day (June 4) or National Surprise Donkey Day (September 13). This will make you a hero at both social and professional events.

And while you’re at it, check out my Jokes! subsite. I’ve made a bunch of other weird stuff over the years.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

Beware speaking ill, for taking back words is burdensome.

Other people are a mess. I think we can agree on that.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

Use a picture. It’s worth a thousand words.

Western values—the basis of the West’s self-evident economic, social, political, scientific, and cultural success—are clearly superior to any other set of values devised by mankind.

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

People are rightly punished for one and only one ultimate reason: because they are loved.

No one hates Buddha; he is dead. But hatred against [Christ] would live on, because he lives. . . .

Prices determined in a free market are a form of free speech.

The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government—one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us.

Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?

People who understand economics can more easily spot hoaxes because money drives human behavior in predictable ways.

Interest groups . . . are made up of people who willingly support those groups with their time and money. They aren’t some diabolical, nebulous enemy of our democracy; they ARE democracy.

Normal is the average of deviance.

I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

The world is more threatened by those who tolerate and encourage evil than by the evildoers themselves.

The ultimate victory over radical Islam will have to come from civilized Islam.