Word: moronization
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NOVEMBER 10, 1997 "I AM NOT A MORON...
Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Muhammed blames it all on the Jews. The rich Western economies. The foreign currency speculators. And of course on George Soros, a rich Western Jewish foreign currency speculator whom Mahathir calls a "criminal" and "a moron." Mahathir believes the IMF, far from wishing the current crop of East Asian leaders a speedy recovery from their current economic crises, engineered Indonesian president Suharto?s fall and would like very much to bring about his own. So it shouldn?t have come as too much of surprise when the defiant Dr. Mahathir threw the switch Tuesday...
...Mary's stalkers are just a bunch of idiots, each more pathetic than the other, ends the movie with a sigh of relief and burst of laughter. But what if Mary's crazed ex-boyfriend had chosen to harm her or kill her instead of just acting like a moron? That is a serious question that we should all think about. The movie ends well, but sadly, in reality, so many other stalker cases...
...special enforcement programs, and psychologists are treating it as a genuine, stand-alone disorder. There are Websites devoted to the topic, including one--the Database of Unsafe Driving--that allows Web users to enter not only an account of their experience with an aggressive driver but also the "insane moron's" license-plate number, along with a proposed punishment. (Several of these--surprise!--are obscene...
...male traditions may have helped foster a belief on campus that hostility toward the new female knobs--as Citadel freshmen are called--would be tolerated, or at least overlooked, by the administration. For coeducation to work, more than a written plan was needed. "Somebody would have to be a moron [to let this happen]," says Paul Gibson, the South Carolina attorney retained by Messer and her parents. "They knew the eyes of the world were upon them...