Howard Silverblatt, 48 Editor, quantitative services, Standard & Poor's BOOK "Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore (2002) WHY "With all the scandals, improprieties, misjudgments and basic greed in the forefront of today's news, it's wise to remember that it is just plain old simple stupidity that has caused most of it.
It would be much easier if all prosecutors had to do was prove good old-fashioned stupidity, greed, and incompetence.
Hit the panic button," Globalist, Dec. 24) for showing that many of today's problems are not "isms" — as in capitalism or socialism — but rather hubris, greed, incompetence and old-fashioned stupidity.
Despite the severe beatings they have taken over the years, they will still muster the courage to chant the same old song as stupidity seems to be in a perpetual bull market.
Do you think we don't care?' and I would say, 'Yeah, I do think that.' "This administration has come closer to saying things like, 'Europe's too old.' The stupidities and exaggerations of that song are still exaggerations, but the way Donald Rumsfeld talks and Paul Wolfowitz talks is like breaking the rules.
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A mother has blamed "her own stupidity" for the death of her two-year-old daughter after her car rolled down a slipway into a river.
You could see it as a rallying cry for the older woman against Botoxed stupidity.
Children are meant to laugh at the man's stupidity, but older listeners may find something heroic about the man's stubborn optimism: "I rubbed my eyes and again I checked the time/It seemed as if the sky was growing dark/But I felt reassured when I looked at the clock and it still said four of two".
The technological progress that inspired the optimism of the Victorians turned out also to multiply the effects of old-fashioned evil and criminal stupidity.
