Word: inept
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...Though most thieves rationalize their acts, the current situation has many people feeling the entire system is broken, that politicians are too corrupt or inept to fix it, and that there's nothing wrong with stealing from these big companies and fancy stores that - the thinking goes - are themselves making out like thieves," Bamfield explains. "There's a real perception among many new shoplifters that if you work hard, put money away and play the game, you're asking for someone to come along and rip you off." (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...better than the next guy, and the multitudes that have flocked to online poker in recent years have ensured that there is a consistent crop of bad players. One of Ian’s friends said he liked gambling because he is “surrounded by inept people, yet none of them are his boss, and if they do something dumb, it makes him money as opposed to a mess for him to clean...
...various plans designed to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" U.S. citizens and soldiers from 2001 to 2008. He will be held in federal custody pending a detention hearing on Oct. 30. If he is found guilty, Mehanna faces up to 15 years in prison. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
...owner because he's said things that some people deem racist? Sadly, the league's historical precedent does not exclude such behavior. As Sports Illustrated just pointed out, the former Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall was an open racist who kept the Redskins white, not to mention inept - now there's an accomplishment - until 1962, long after the owners grudgingly reintegrated the league in 1946. (See TIME's top 10 things to watch this NFL season...
Here at home, we have watched as President Obama—and his maddeningly inept Democratic majority—squander control of the national debate over health-care reform. In place of intelligent deliberation, we have ignorant demagoguery. Instead of concern and compassion for the uninsured, we hear cries of “Communism!” from the uninformed. The president tried to stop the bleeding with one of his trademark orations—this time to a joint session of Congress during prime time—but his performance only underscored the old cliché that sometimes actions...