The culminating shock of "Imbeciles" — a book full of shocking anecdotes — is the fact that Buck v. Bell is still on the books and was cited as precedent in court as recently as 2001.
Do we honestly need four or eight more years of a full blown imbecile riding atop one of our missiles a-hootin' and a-hollerin' all the way to Armageddon? Campbell Brown had it right this week when she called the McCain campaign sexist for locking Palin away.
"It's just a cacophony of imbeciles".
There were a lot of imbeciles.
("Three generations of imbeciles are enough," Justice Holmes wrote).
"Three generations of imbeciles are enough," Oliver Wendell Holmes famously said.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., writing for the eight-to-one majoriThreeoncluded, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough".
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s majority opinion entered history: "Three generations of imbeciles are enough".
My flat, like a barrow for the greatest of imbeciles …" Nothing much else happens.
"Three generations of imbeciles," Holmes wrote in his opinion, "are enough".
