Word: stupidity
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...saddest things about our world is there is no room left in it for the stupid people. Throughout the years, whatever technological and social changes might come, the less-than-smart used to have the solace of TV. It would give them new shows in the fall, and those shows would stay on the air at the same time on the same channel, and then there would not be another set of shows to learn until next year...
...apparently, and it's ironic since this is also the network that gave us "Forever Eden," "The Littlest Groom," and other shows that would give a surfeit of pleasure to the stupid, if only they could find them. In total, it announced 17 new shows, not counting one - the animated sitcom "Family Guy" - which the network canceled twice before and has un-canceled again. (New episodes return in summer 2005.) A list follows, but be warned: You can either read this list, or you can actually watch TV. There is not enough time in one life to do both...
...last challenger to unseat an incumbent President, Bill Clinton, ran on the axiom that it's "the economy, stupid." He won, but that does not make the assumption--that Presidents control the economy--any less fictitious. They do not. The idea that they do, the central motif of most every presidential election, is crazy...
...document is classified. It also orders them not to discuss the matter with friends or family members. The emailed memo was leaked to TIME by a senior U.S. civilian official in Baghdad, who did not hide his disdain for the "factotums" in the Pentagon. "I do wonder how incredibly stupid some people in the Pentagon are," he emailed TIME. "Not only are they drawing everyone's attention to the report - and where it can be seen - but attempting to muzzle people never works...
...League proudly boasted in 2002 that “its approach of…limiting athletes’ year-round time commitments is unique in Division I.” Of course it’s unique. No other conference’s member schools would be stupid enough to mandate that its players sit through a 49-day holding pattern. Athletes come to college to play sports. They like playing sports. If you give them seven weeks off to do what they want, they’ll take the free time and go play sports. So, in effect...