Word: moronism
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...home for undergrads who might otherwise get lost in Widener, requiring the University to send out an expensive and embarrassing search party. Lamont is supposed to be a kinder, gentler library in which you can ask the reference librarian where they keep Mad magazine and not feel like a moron...
What is hate? A "black sun," as Wiesel wrote? The image may give hate too much of a strange literary prestige. Black sun. White whale. Whatever. The reason the subject is hard to discuss is that hate is simultaneously a mystery and a moron. It seems either too profound to understand or too shallow and stupid to bear much analysis -- a cretin with a club, violent, repulsive, irrational, a black intoxication, an accomplice of death...
...Intelligent recusal must be elegantly done. There are rules. No ethnic slurs. Avoid recusing yourself on entire countries, such as Canada. Do not go scything down whole fields of knowledge. (On the other hand, I long ago recused myself on the subject of economics, about which I am a moron, and have not suffered a day's unhappiness because...
...consider that it is exceptionally difficult to administer quick and complete justice under the current working conditions," the president of the 24-member court, Fabio Moron Diaz, said in a statement...
Thanks for the Memories Dept.: This installment of The Liberal Boutique is dedicated to recalling the words and works of former President Reagan, lest we forget what a moron he really is. A personal favorite is the fortieth President's analysis of the intricacies of Central American politics: "I went down there to find out from them and [learn] their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries...