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Stupid is not a word that should be bandied about lightly, as a certain President recently learned.
I promise not to bandy. God apparently did bandy, for it’s thanks to him that there are stupid people, right? I mean, geesh, perhaps there aren’t any good jokes around up-out there, but come on, give the rest of us a break huh?
Actually, I’m not going to talk about stupid in general, but stupid in pretty darn specific way. Contrary to the above, I think most stupid people kinda know they are so. I mean don’t we all get some kind of idea where we are on the scale from too stupid to remember to breathe to so freakin’ brilliant that the space-time continuum is but child’s play?
I mean it only took me seeing what kind of dim bulbs could actually graduate from law school, to realize that I better start taking proper care in selecting my physician and dentist, accountant, and so on and so forth. Passing tests is some what of an art form, and is no indicator of “smarts.” Some folks have the “gift for gab” and that makes then electable, no?
I assume most of them know this. I knew it. I’m not stupid, but I’m not as smart as the Contrarian for instance. I’m smarter than better than half the House of Representatives, but not as smart as the other half. I can study hardier and compensate a lot. Most people learn ways to compensate for their weakness. They find people who are smarter and listen carefully to their opinions, they take cues from signs saying walk and don’t walk. You know what I mean.
But then, there is a class unto themselves, and I am rather angry that God thought fit to sic them on humanity. They are: People who are stupid, and not only don’t know it, but think they are above average and are arrogant about that. Yes, a rare bird indeed, but when you have come upon such a one as this, you will be bald in a short time from pulling out every freakin hair on your head in frustration.
One could argue, go ahead, argue, or conclude, that Sarah,”The Quitter,” Palin is such a creature. I hate to think she is, for that means that God has passed from being humorous to down right mean spirited, and that’s something I don’t like to think about God.
Now for Sarah, stupidity takes on a rather unique characteristic. It isn’t that she is knuckle dragging stupid, but that she has this bizarre idea that because she can somehow manage to titillate a certain small, below average, population, that she is fit to govern something larger than a PTA meeting.
Rest assured, she has hired people who sit with binoculars to watch should Putin raise his head from Russia and snoop. She’s got that covered.
What kind of mental midget thinks that it’s okay not to learn anything about issues, because one’s “gut” is all one needs. What kind of incurious bird can’t think of a single publication when asked to state what papers and magazines she reads? I mean is this rocket science?
I will give you an example of a true idiot I once worked “around.” Said person was a judge, elected by the fine folks of Detroit, Michigan, or Daytwa, if you like the French pronunciation. Since said “attorney,” and I use that term as they say loosely, was fairly poor at his craft, and was regularly embarrassed in courtrooms, it made perfect sense to him to run for judge. And given God’s penchant for this humorous subspecies of homo sapien, “C” won.
Now most people in criminal court are there for good reason. Even if not technically or otherwise guilty of the present crime, they are okay with paying their dues for a hundred they escaped notice with. But occasionally, a really really innocent person enters the arena, and it’s incumbent on all parties to recognize that. Especially is it important that judges sniff out these folks. Its fairly easy thereafter to see that justice prevails.
But arrogant and stupid confines itself to adoring itself. It can’t see beyond its own brilliance, and so, I would be frustrated in attempting to alert said “C” that he needed to LISTEN. There were of course myriads of stories about said ASS (Arrogant/stupid/sapien), and I won’t relate them here, but for one.
I was patiently (one must be patient) outlining, step by step, why any judge with a brain (perhaps only 1/2 of one) should do as I suggested, by proceeding point by point, all inexorably leading to an obvious conclusion. “Crrrrrshhshsh, crrrrsshhshs,” I hear, coming from the microphone at the bench. I look up. (Not that dramatic look up over the rims of reading glasses, since I was way too young for them, but with a definite look of exasperation. One could also turn one’s back for a moment and make a face at the attorneys sitting behind, which often brought muffled giggles and attempts to not give away that the freakin’ judge had gone bonkers. . . . but I digress).
Said ASS was banging a piece of paper about the side of 4 x 4 inches against some spike that you save messages on. Finally it concluded, he looked at me, and in full exasperation, waved his arm, “Go on, go on, or are you done?”
I refrained from saying the obvious, “I won’t be done until I’ve seen you die from having lost your last functioning brain cell.” Of course, he didn’t understand a word I had said, and he denied whatever it was I asked, and then called me and the oh so lucky, don’t have to work in this courtroom prosecutor, to the bench.
Once there, I hazarded a look down at what had been stuck on the spindle. Being a sneaky attorney, I am good at reading upside down. It said in part.
- Be calm
- Relax, take a deep breath
- Speak Slowly
- “Would the clerk please call the first case.”
Need I say more? And this from an I D I O T who had been on the bench for better than a year!
Well, I can smell a wounded animal with the best of them Alaska hunters. I was merciless to the end in making a jackass out of “C” from that day forward. Did I tell you I can’t stand arrogant and stupid together? The only drawback, was that most of the time, he was too STUPID to know what sport I made of him.
Existential Ennui 