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...Christianity: "I loathe lambs, those symbols of Christian meekness. They are the stupidest, most persistent, greediest little beasts in the whole animal kingdom. Really, I suspect Jesus of having had very little to do with sheep, that he could call himself the Lamb of God. I would truly rather be the little pig of God, the little pigs are infinitely gayer and more delicate in soul...
...Stupidest Man of the Year: Belgium's Premier Gaston Eyskens-the man who unleashed the barbaric horde at Léopoldville in July...
That "white sidewall" haircut episode was the stupidest piece of bureaucratic nonsense I ever heard of. The Sepoy mutiny in India (1857-59) started because some silly ass in the British army ordered the Mohammedan native troops (who could not eat pigs) to bite off the end of a cartridge which had been waterproofed with pig fat. This mutiny cost the lives of thousands of troops on both sides. I'm not suggesting that we are starting a second Sepoy mutiny, but I'd like to point out that a lot of trained technicians are not re-enlisting...
...America herself. "An avowed aloof ness from national feeling," Lionel Trilling says, "is no longer the first ceremonial step into the life of thought . . . For the first time in the history of the modern American intellectual, America is not to be conceived of as a priori the vulgarest and stupidest nation of the world...
Calling the move "one of the stupidest things the Air Force has ever done," an officer who refused to be named said the disbanding will harm the service in the long run. "The Air Force needs and wants to have a many people as possible conscious of air power. The dissolvement of the units, however, can only cause graduates of schools like Harvard to be more Army and Navy conscious and less Air Force conscious," the officer said...