Word: dumbness
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When it comes to unraveling a Washington scandal, the best clues often come from the most clueless. They are the bit players so earnestly inept that it is hard to separate what was diabolical from what was merely dumb. So it was in the best Washington tradition that congressional investigators were focusing their attention last week on a former interior designer with a remarkable knack for placing herself near the hot spots of trouble for her old friend, Bill Clinton...
...Midwesterners have a sixth sense, and it's the sense of inferiority, a feeling that if we were really any good, we wouldn't be living here. This can lead to truly dumb attempts to compensate, such as a recent article in a local magazine saying that Minneapolis is as hip as New York City. The magazine is the sort that goes in for cover stories like "Twenty-Five Best Sunday Brunches" or "Thirty-Six Ways to Turn Your Bathroom into a Place You Would Want to Spend the Entire Afternoon In"--and the article was terminally dopey...
While sipping Reverse-Scriptase martinis, Lori and I glanced outside to see the hundreds of beautiful Hereford mommies, glorious and dumb as posts under the great Canadian sky, chewing vitaminized, antibioticized alfalfa while inside each of them our own future little fan clubs incubated. "Look, over there, the one with a white patch on the eye, No. 388--that's yours, honey!" Bliss...
...Teaching is funny. Children are not cute. They are dumb, and that is funny. When I was teaching sex-ed to the sixth grade, there were plenty of questions such as this one: "If an alien came down to Chicago and had sex with a person, what would their children be like?" This, after we finished Macbeth...
...kind of dumb for a cat, but he was gentle and sweet, and you never had to worry about seeming smart or funny or interesting for him. He was easy to be with," she says...