Word: ignoramuses
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...himself, and an almost superhuman resilience that enabled him to see off his enemies. He felt uncomfortable with any fixed ideological position, relying instead on intuition. Critics put it about that he lacked intellectual inquisitiveness; in fact, he made a constant effort to refresh his thinking and was no ignoramus. He particularly liked Chekhov's short stories. When not bingeing on vodka, he was a bit of a puritan in social relations. He abhorred unpunctuality: his favorite gift to anyone was a wristwatch. Aides who made lewd comments quickly lost their posts...
...provide medical attention. After I told him I had a fever and had been coughing for nearly two months, he declared, ''You probably have hepatitis. There is a lot of it going around in this detention house. I'll examine a specimen of your blood.'' I was astonished. Any ignoramus would know that I had bronchitis, possibly verging on pneumonia, not hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver with symptoms entirely different from mine. What sort of ''doctor'' was this? When I looked at him through the small window, I saw a country lad, no more than 20 years...
...different--like 100 people finding shapes in clouds. By the time they make up their minds, the clouds have drifted beyond the horizon. But scientists who have spent their lives studying sex differences in the brain (some of whom defend Summers and some of whom dismiss him as an ignoramus) generally concede that he was not entirely wrong. Thanks to new brain-imaging technology, we know there are indeed real differences between the male and the female brain, more differences than we would have imagined a decade ago. "The brain is a sex organ," says Sandra Witelson, a neuroscientist...
That said, we should not become complacent in combating small manifestations of parasitic ignorance like the current business at Texas Tech. The old cliché tells us that where there’s smoke, there’s fire—and where one ignoramus attempts to conflate the tales of his own scripture with the purity of the most fundamental scientific theory of the biological sciences—there’s millions more waiting in the wings...
...Christopher Cardinale's autobiographical piece about biking around downtown on that fateful morning has some remarkable details, like seeing tourists obliviously snapping pictures of each other in front of a sculpture. Unlike other such stories, he ends with an ominous note in the overheard comment of an ignoramus: "That's why we got G.W. in office! We're going to kick some Palestinian ass tonight!" Many of the other works express concerns about cycles of violence. With a simple, iconic style reminiscent of instruction manuals, Seth Tobacman's "Not Enough People Have Died," takes the logic of punishing everyone...