Word: stupidity
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...book Stiffed, a lamentation on the emasculated American man. As part of my continuing series on books no one outside the media is reading ("In Defense of Irony," TIME, Oct. 4, 1999, p. 42), I want to say that almost all the parts of Stiffed I read are totally stupid. The main exception is on page 649 in the bibliography ("Joel Stein, 'Porn Goes Mainstream,'" TIME, Sept. 7, 1998, p. 54). I recommend buying the book just for that page...
...staff editorial on the new group rivaling the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGTLSA). The Crimosn takes a ridiculous view of censorship, asserting that censorship is, of course, wrong, but the appropriateness of the message should be taken into account when putting up posters. That is just stupid, and the dissenters did a good job pointing out the flaw in the editorial's argument...
...Alex sighs. "He's stupid. He's not a bad kid, but he's trying...
...Harvard student hangs an "Austin Powers" poster on his wall. Boldly assuming that the Harvard student's a pretty smart guy and "Austin Powers" a pretty stupid movie, one must ask why the student would choose to decorate his room in this manner. A genuine and deep admiration of the film, perhaps? A way of appropriating a little of the movie's popularity for his own? A way of holding onto a receding childhood through childishness...
...China there are drastically different levels of authority, from the hard-lined to the liberal," he said. "I am not surprised by what the police did to [Wei's and Wang's] families. But I also think that there are Chinese people who thought that it was a stupid thing to do. I even think that within the Chinese government there were people who thought this was stupid...