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Bennett might have had a real adversary in Moore, but Moore doesn't address any Sept. 11 questions. Stupid White Men was originally scheduled for publication the week of the attack, then held back by his publisher because of worries that his snippy tone--"Idiot in Chief" is one of the milder things he calls George W.--would not play well in wartime. Now we have his book pretty much as he wrote it, a bit of unadulterated pre-Sept. 11 wrath and a handy compilation of everything Moore's fans hate about the contested 2000 election ("Gore won!"), corporate...
...experienced a brief flash of irritation, thinking that for $80 a night, one might reasonably expect a television. But I quickly figured that, free of the insidious temptations of the idiot box, I would spend my time in the hotel far more productively: drinking beer on the bougainvillaea-draped patio, listening to the chirps of the wriggling geckos on the walls, and watching the world go by. And should I grow weary of my tropical tranquility, the downstairs bar beckoned. Complete with dusty wickerwork chairs, an ancient gramophone and a scattering of pith helmets, it looks straight...
...years, and centers on a battle of wits, or at least a battle of problem sets, between the hero, Steve, and D.B. (short for Deathrage L. Bergman), the archetypal pain-in-the-ass section participant. Late in the semester, Steve finally builds up the courage to call D.B. an idiot, and the two agree to compete in a problem set competition. Of course, no musical would be complete without a love story, and Dong delivers one between Steve and his Physics 16 classmate Christene Heisenberg (the fictional great-granddaughter of Werner Heisenberg, of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle fame...
...their economies and tourist industries are booming. So why not learn from our foreign friends and make our own special brand of rudeness part of the "American experience?" It could be a real windfall. We can export t-shirts emblazoned with "America Says You're An Idiot!" decals. Or mugs that burp when you finish your drink. Or those foam fingers with one particular digit extended. At the very least we know they'd sell awfully well in France...
...cash--a staggering sum, even if the bills were counterfeit. Nor should the astonishing recent advances in technique be discounted. "Cheating is a lot more sophisticated now than in the old days," marvels one grizzled sleazeball. "Back then a suitcase full of cash and a job for somebody's idiot nephew could get your city the Olympics. Nowadays, thanks to Enron and the 2000 Florida voting and whatnot, everybody's on the case all the time. You're smart, or you're toast. For instance, everybody knows that a certain nation entered in these games has a cross-country skier...