"A man hunts, Ivan Alekseyevich, either out of stupidity or out of poverty!" his father would say to him.
So long as politicians remain most comfortable outside the digital world, and so long as they need to raise money to finance their own re-election campaigns, we'll get technologically illiterate laws being proposed, either from out-and-out stupidity.
George Eliot was aware of the problems inherent in visiting and preserving the houses of the celebrated: "Stupidity of people tricking out and altering such a place instead of letting one see it as he saw it and lived in it," she once wrote after visiting Schiller's home, in Weimar.
This critic, at any rate, persisted, partly because, as Professor Ronell points out, stupidity is familiar but not familiarly understood.
Either way, Duncan and Huffman have set an entirely new high bar for ignorance, insensitivity, and just plain flat out stupidity.
I want to create a new organization to stamp out stupidity and indifference and restore common decency and goodwill into society.
What's needed is a response to teenaged stupidity that metes out punishment without resorting to handcuffs, trials, and detention centers.
They know every mistake that has been made, been told every lie, saw their own soldiers killed by stupidity, figured out solutions and built relationships with insurgents, sheikhs and imams on the ground that have given the best of them a granular understanding of the "real" Middle East that would rival any Middle East studies professor.
Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel–Why Everything You Know Is Wrong by John Stossel (Hyperion, $24.95).
It seems like there's an almost weekly statement of stupidity coming out of the mouths of Pat Robertson or another member of the religious right desperate for publicity.
