Even Marco Rubio, Florida's hotshot Republican and one of the "Gang of Eight" who designed the new, bipartisan immigration reform proposal, recently mouthed various idiocies about evolution and the "real" age of the Earth.
Set in the thieves' swampy off-road hideaway, where a relentless killer has it in for them after they unwittingly interfere with his plans, the movie is little more than an excuse to punish idiocy, crack wise about said idiots and flex a filmmaker's gross-out skills.
In Kronbergs's letter he wrote that he was "sick of keeping quiet and listening to idiocies... about myself and other homosexual people".
If the laughs sometimes came at the expense of the show's ideological coherence — Colbert's politics were more about idiocy that conservatism — that was ultimately O.K. Colbert was indeed a zealot, but his unwavering faith was always, above all else, in comedy.
Mostly they grouse about idiocy up the ranks, the generals and politicians who sent them into combat with shortages and inappropriate equipment (including woodland camouflage for a desert war) and absurd grooming standards — basically an updated version of Bill Mauldin's World War II grunts and dogfaces.
But it's too one-note, and Simmons truculently resists opportunities to offset the idiocy: his song about his dead gran travelling to outer space keeps restating the supposedly funny old woman/space travel juxtaposition, when it could be much more.
If the laughs sometimes came at the expense of the show's ideological coherence Colbert's politics were more about idiocy that conservatism that was ultimately O.K. Colbert was indeed a zealot, but his unwavering faith was always, above all else, in comedy.
When you litter your friend's wall with vitriol about the idiocy of your interlocutors, you are talking about people, not pixels.
They tell much about the idiocy of a court system that deals in rigid absolutes and about many that are still blinded in part by mania over the Vick's past reprehensible actions toward dogs, and in part because of racism.
