Word: dumbness
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...election campaign at times little more than a curiosity, an irritation yammering toward a foregone conclusion. Even the summer's mild suspense (it's a toss-up, we said) is draining out of this one. The race began by raising two fundamental questions: How strange is Gore? How dumb is Bush? There are real policy differences, of course, but personality trumps those. The answer is emerging - the sum of Al's weirdness works out to be less than the sum of W.'s dumbness. That, anyway, is the current state of play. It could yet change...
...aren't that stupid. We know that political advertising is a high-stakes game; ads are built from the ground up, and every single frame is scrutinized for unwelcome intrusions and subtle messages. Somebody on Castellanos's staff deliberately injected the "RATS" frame, and now everybody is playing dumb...
...horror for those who like to make fun of new dumb sports is that the I.O.C. has eliminated the exhibition-sport category and is planning to cut, not add, new events. That means artistic roller skating probably won't make the cut. Artistic skating is a lot like figure skating, but it's done on '70s-style quad roller skates and to even worse music. How can that not be a sport at an Olympics in which Olivia Newton-John is performing at the opening ceremonies? There is no justice when Mr. Samaranch is in charge...
...Critics maintain, though, that such gains have come at a hefty price, as classrooms have morphed into pressure cookers and as teachers dumb down creative lessons to teach only to the test. And recent studies allege that the gains in minority scores might be illusory. According to a study published last month by Walt Haney, an education professor at Boston College, growing numbers of the state's minorities - as many as 50% in some schools - are either dropping out or are granted "special education" status, meaning their test scores are not counted toward their school's overall ranking. Says Haney...
...interject a gag strip to alleviate the tension of doing something over and over again. And I did strip that was called "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," that was sort of a parody of a "smart kid" strip in the Depression era. Then when I ceased doing the dumb mouse stuff I was stuck for something to do and I wanted to do a strip that had actually a real human being in it. And since I had done [Jimmy Corrigan], it was something I was familiar with, so I started with that...