Word: dumbness
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Citigroup chief financial officer Ned Kelly was trying to explain an aspect of the bank's better-than-expected first-quarter results on Friday morning when star analyst Meredith Whitney interrupted him. "Could you dumb that down for me?" she asked...
...around my waist, she started kissing at my tatters, which is strange, because it’s not something I would think to do to a woman. It seems like something boys do because they’ve seen it on pornos and it’s usually just dumb. But with Lee-Lee, I was getting into it, because she wasn’t just suckling, like a boy, she was nuzzling, squeezing, licking all down my stomach. Then she started biting. First around the edges of my areola, then my actual nipple. Tugging a little...
...going as the reverend looked back up and said “Please” to the congregation before continuing.I got to the pew and saw Daddy turn. His face was healthy for one moment and then, just like the reverend’s, it went dead.I stood there dumb. But Ezekiel was waiting. This was my domain.I looked down at Old Man Grumpy. He turned slowly, like he was so enthralled with the sermon that my return was some big surprise. I tried to give him a look that would get him to scooch over. But he moved...
...persuades or fails, Americans are listening to more than the faux-controversial snippets blared out on the Drudge Report. They're absorbing the serious arguments, weighing the options, taking the measure of a President who came across as confident, wry and eager to engage. (And who, yes, sometimes says dumb things and apologizes for them...
...heartening to see that at a time when so many things - credit, confidence, consumer demand - are in short supply, our political leaders are still able to muster such bounteous supplies of outrage. Outraged people often do dumb things, though, and my initial reaction to the many declarations of fury was to roll my eyes and mutter something about this being a trivial distraction from the Important Things we need to be dealing with. (I suspect that similar sentiments on the part of Geithner and Summers largely explain their politically tone-deaf handling of the bonus affair.) (See 25 people...