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...discipline thing - the Martians may have been sent by their evil ruler to conquer the earth, but they took the assignment so they could bliss out on the planet's junk food and video games. There's the brains thing - the Martian perspective on life can be dim, dumb and completely impervious to logic. And finally, there's the looks thing: the Butt-Uglies have blue skin, big teeth, and bulging, bug eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Things Are Getting Ugly | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

Matt Grohnke wasn't dumb; he just couldn't get interested in English literature or American history. During his first two years at Robinson High School in Fairfax, Va., Matt would count the minutes until he could get home and focus on his real passion--computers. So after some prodding from his guidance counselor, Matt applied to the career academy located within a high school in nearby Chantilly, Va. At the Chantilly Academy, students earn coveted technical certifications in courses designed by Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Nortel. Surrounded by like-minded classmates and encouraged to pursue something he loved, Matt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Way Beyond Shop Class | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

Someone once said my column reminds them of Joan Rivers and I nearly puked in horror. Come on now. Joan Rivers is not only totally devoid of cultural relevance, but she is also dumb as a stump. Oscar night proved it. Here are some choice moments from her broadcast on E! that appeared in Entertainment Weekly...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In the (K)now | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

...administration's early errors of symbolism and priority. As Clinton stupidly allowed gays in the military to become an opening issue of his administration, so Bush has given early prominence to carbon dioxide emissions, arsenic in the water, rejection of the Kyoto treaty, and oil drilling in Arctic Alaska. Dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is George W. Heading for a Crash on the Newt Gingrich Highway? | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...routine sounded like this: "Why, that dumb n-----....." Then the speaker would realize he was talking to someone (probably a Yankee), who might not be in harmony with going around saying "n-----." So the speaker might backpedal, with an unction of benevolence: "Uh, 'cose, you know, I don't mean nuthin' by that. (Squinting now into the middle distance, with a philosophical air; if outdoors, he might even spit speculatively.) "The way I figure, they'se white n------ as well as black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Word Is Deed | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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