Word: stupidity
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...about to jet to practice right now, but I’ll hit you back later...Yeah, just drop it off at the club and I’ll scoop it up...Coo?...Solid.” (she said) “How the hell do I keep this stupid bag’s strap from getting stuck in my cleavage...
Makes sense, if you think about it. The fashionable claims of many sociologists notwithstanding, criminal behavior is not entirely conditioned. Neither are criminals stupid or irrational. If Joey is about to jump you, he'll think twice if he knows you might be carrying a gun. Sophisticated claims to the contrary are condescending and out of touch with reality...
...endless pizza eaten by the highest officials of the land?) That is enough. Let not the politicians (to use Dylan Thomas' words) "blaspheme down the stations of the breath/with any further elegy on innocence and youth." Let's keep children out of the shamingly self-serving and stupid libretto that pols perform in order to sell themselves. Let the kids, when they are old enough, go out into the forest to chase lions...
...translator and champion of Ukrainian writing. He enlisted me sometimes in college to help him polish English versions of such beloved writers as Vasyl Stefanyk. He had taught me about the great Ukrainian national poet, Taras Shevchenko. (He also taught me some overly colorful Ukrainian phrases that I was stupid enough to repeat in mixed Ukrainian company, to his embarrassment and mine...
...mystery of "Star Wars," his plan (visionary or goofy, depending) to erect an umbrella of space-borne laser and particle-beam weapons to protect America from nuclear attack. She examines Star Wars (the Strategic Defense Initiative, SDI) and pronounces it no mystery at all, but merely an expensive, stupid idea. The same, she suggests, may therefore be said of Reagan. He cooked up SDI, she thinks, mostly to deflect the nuclear-freeze movement...