Word: stupidity
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...believe he actually knows what love is; he’s a twenty-three-year-old male, my mother says, and that means he knows nothing. But during those first several days, no rationalization could make the pain go away. I just cried, and then played the same stupid sad songs to try and console myself. I wrote more than fifty pages in three different journals. I drove my roommates crazy talking about him and overanalyzing the relationship. My best friend Amina said I needed to just take the hit, suck it up, and I would be all the better...
...could have been a little cage full of trained hamsters who can play three-on-three basketball. This sounds really stupid, I know, but it only sounds somewhat stupid once you’ve seen the hamsters that play one-on-one. They used to live at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, and they were hilarious...
...from primitive pits, theirs is not just another grim and baleful tale of forced labor. For these pals are merry pranksters at heart whose spirits never falter. At their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically correct and resourceful?if grossly inaccurate?response...
...untenable. And we don't have international institutions that will help people through these huge transitions. We have organizations that are strong in finance and trade, but for labor, the environment and health we have very weak international regimes. Now people are saying, ?It's not just the economy, stupid...
...concerned, that?s just fine. This year, perhaps more than ever before, we all need the therapeutic effect of the mundane, the expected. We want to make the same stupid jokes we make every year. We want the gravy to be a little bit runny, because that?s how we remember it. We want to lock horns at least once with our siblings, exactly the way we always have, before everything changed...