Word: stupidity
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...Also, we learned that rooting against someone would have been really stupid, because the SciTech Award winners are chosen long before the event in a deliberative process a lot more like evaluating a doctoral thesis than watching a DVD of Little Miss Sunshine. And in fact, everyone at the ceremony had reason to be happy, be they a winner, a member of the Academy, or a date willing to laugh at math jokes for an excuse to get dressed up and eat filet mignon...
...fact--about Biden is not that he is a racist, or even close, but that he is pathologically loquacious. And he babbles. That means his unintended comments about black presidential candidates deserve less weight, not more. But it would be nice if just occasionally we could shrug off stupid things that people say accidentally...
...album hit the radio. The song breathed life into the orange-haired, black-nail-polished part of me I’d ignored since my pre-teen years. I’d found my secret summer love. But God, why are the pretty ones always so damn stupid? “Infinity on High” lacks the cheek that helped the band distinguish itself from its pop peers on 2005’s “From Under the Cork Tree.” The track titles alone show the distinction: instead of “A Little Less...
...bombs in Lite-Brite toys, these devices could have been lethal weapons of mass destruction. The evildoing entrepreneurs who hatched this plot, in wanting to force their way of life (or, at least, their product) upon all decent Bostonians, succeeded in making the city and its denizens look, well, stupid. Fiends! They must be smoked out. Luckily, the Boston Police Department (BPD) unclothed the cartoonish mask of these devices to reveal their true nature as a hoax of a hoax of a wide-scale deliberate terrorist attack and responded accordingly. The first device was reported...
Martin Amis is, and has been for several decades now, one of the world's greatest living novelists, and the fact that he attracts some of the world's worst reviews only makes him more interesting. A relentlessly intelligent, funny, and kind writer, he's endlessly interested in stupid, humorless, cruel people, and in his new book House of Meetings (Knopf; 256 pages) he turns for a fresh supply of them to Stalin-era Russia. Ranging back and forth from frozen Arctic prison camps to the unseemly capitalist free-for-all of the post-Soviet era, House of Meetings...