Word: idiot
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...thursday, 4 january: The idiot selectors went for three spinners. There's no turn. Strauss and Trescothick, free of my taunts, put on 400 for the first wicket; there's rain forecast for the next week. Great for the farmers. Who cares? Might as well turn into a tsunami. England will retain the Ashes. Sod them...
...Asian rivals like Sony, Matsushita and Samsung into the world's hottest electronics company. "Everybody from 1 to 100 uses a TV, many of them for three to five hours a day," he says, clearly delighted by the thought of all of us plopped in front of so many idiot boxes, each of them potentially bearing a Sharp logo. "Television," he says, "is the monster electronics product...
...dogma. As a high school student, I have repeatedly observed that any attempt to debate Darwin's theory is immediately shot down by the teacher and quickly followed with the accusation, direct or implied, that the student who dares to think outside the evolutionary box is an anti-intellectual idiot. That approach hampers science, for it is a field that thrives on the testing of theories and on the questioning and seeking of more accurate knowledge. How will science ever be able to progress if students are told there is only one way to think...
...Rockower strongly suggests homeowners with adjustable-rate mortgages who plan on staying in their current residence shift now to a fixed rate. "Anybody who doesn't have a fixed-rate loan is an idiot," she says. And, if you're holding onto real estate strictly as an investment, she believes it's probably the right time to cash in. It's not just rate hikes that concern Rockower. "Interest rates don't have to go up one dime for the market to collapse," she says. "All those teaser rates and no-money-down deals that people used to buy property...
Taylor Hern's mother Caryn counts herself in that number. "I am absolutely an idiot when it comes to that kind of stuff," she says. But Taylor's cyberbullying experience convinced Hern that she had to get Net-savvy. She has signed up for lessons from an expert: her son David, who is 19. "You read about what kids do to other kids, but you don't think it's going to happen to yours," she says. "Who knows what happens online after I go to bed at 10? I need to find...