Word: stupidity
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...ECONOMY, STUPID TIME evaluates the candidates' plans on jobs, taxes, health care and other fiscal issues. We find short-term fixes, not long-term solutions...
MARCH. Ken wins eighth million. Production on The Simple Life 3 abruptly canceled when Paris Hilton storms off the set, saying, "My boyfriend says this is stupid and we look stupid and the network wants us to look stupid and everyone who watches us is stupid." Headlines in the National Enquirer report that Ken and his posse were asked to leave the UCLA library after refusing to shush. Becomes butt of criticism when he starts trash talking rivals. "Who cares?," Ken comments. "Right now I'm bigger than Alex." Ratings plateau...
...Hugh Grant. But unlike Grant, who publicly--and effectively--offered contrition, Poundstone refuses to pander to win back her audience. "I was sentenced to A.A. on national television," she says during her routine. "That pretty much blows the hell out of the second A." She refers to rehab as "stupid" and argues that not only have A.A. meetings proved ineffective, but it was unconstitutional for a judge to compel her to attend. "I'm an atheist," she says. "Everyone tries to say that God is not a part of A.A., but the third step states pretty clearly that you have...
...Headmaster Zakaria is less generous, and says his most important job?and the mission with which he charges his students?is to convert other Indonesians to his views. Those who don't agree with his strict interpretation of Islam, he says, are "slow to understand the Koran" or "just stupid." So far, Zakaria and his fellow believers have had relatively little success in changing the views of most Indonesians. So far, the quiet tolerance espoused by the likes of Maksun and Kasmawati has proved a bulwark against extremism...
...Iraq. I was in favor of a pre-emptive war to get Saddam Hussein before he used weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. or supplied them to terrorists. I now realize we Americans were deceived by our President and Vice President. There is no virtue in blind, stupid stubbornness (neither mine nor our President's), no wisdom in sticking to an untenable position. I am flip-flopping to support Kerry. STEWART PERRY Wayzata, Minn...