Word: ineptness
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...inept and so inartful.' MARGARET SPELLINGS, U.S. Secretary of Education, on why she turned down a date with Karl Rove in the early...
Individually the attacks looked inept, almost comically so, the incompetent work of slapstick terrorists. Yesterday afternoon a burning Jeep Cherokee plowed into the terminal building at the airport serving Scotland?s largest city, Glasgow. One of the jeep's two occupants erupted from the vehicle, in flames and bellowing, to be felled by punch from a tourist who later told a British newspaper "He was a big fellow and was disorientated, otherwise I would not have been able to knock him down...
...Hong Kong and mainland authorities might be surprised to hear me say this, but I have been pleasantly surprised at how the past decade has unfolded. Overall, China has tried to abide by the Basic Law, Hong Kong's mini-constitution, and despite a turbulent seven years under the inept leadership of former Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, the territory is prospering. That is not to say there aren't concerns. Hong Kong suffers greatly from a lack of full democracy. The press censors itself to avoid angering the powers that be. (For refusing to pull its punches, Apple Daily...
...foreign policy, one that Roosevelt disdained: Woodrow Wilson's democratic idealism. But utopian militarism just isn't very American, in the end. We like to think of ourselves as having to be dragged, reluctantly, into saving the world and dominating it. And Bush's Administration turned out to be inept at both the military part and the utopian part: it failed at the strategy and logistics of the Iraq war and flirted disastrously with the idea that terrorist groups like Hizballah and Hamas are simply good citizens waiting to happen...
...course, this isn’t a call to be complacent or callous—too many people still live at the mercy of inept, autocratic governments, or suffer from diseases long vanquished in the West. Nevertheless, humans worldwide are more prosperous, more educated, and more free to pursue individual happiness than ever before. We produce better products using fewer resources (thanks to the dematerialization of consumer goods); the environment is generally healthier (major air pollutants like sulfur and carbon monoxide have declined by 15 to 75 percent since 1970); and society is more tolerant (going from the Stonewall Riots...