Word: stupidity
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...people want to go to the Olympics, and only so many tickets are available. So to keep everybody happy, you sometimes have to stretch the definition of sport. This, no doubt, is how the Greeks came up with the pole vault. And this year offers a bounty of stupid sports to mollify the masses. Not only did I score you gymnastics tickets, you valuable client you, but they're for this year's newest Olympic sport, trampolining...
...save journalism. I got myself and Josh Tyrangiel, who sits across the hall, booked on a conference call last Thursday with Rich Hatch, the guy who won the $1 million, and about 100 other reporters. Our plan was to ask really, really stupid questions. We thought this might wake our society up from its psychosis. If not, we'd still get to ask stupid questions...
...stupid to underestimate George W. Bush. He may throw interesting punches during the debates, getting off the sort of sound bites that can turn a campaign around. He may, indeed, proceed to build a persuasive case not only that he is the better man but also that the Republican approach (on taxes, on health care, on education, and so on) makes more sense, philosophically and morally. The kaleidoscope may tumble into yet another design...
...rather have a stiff president than a stupid one." -Dee Goss Westby, 71, of La Crosse, Wis., pitching slogans to Gore camp...
...critic at a large newspaper was discovered to have plagiarized a number of my essays from TIME - not just a sentence here or there, but long paragraphs at a time. The man, thus exposed, committed suicide. I found out about this weeks after it had happened. The plagiarism was stupid and bizarre. The suicide was tragic; it took the case over into real darkness...