re: #2 bluewater

Even dumber than I thought

You failed to grasp the enormity of her fail. When I saw her on TV try, and try, to say that so-and-so was just making things worse, but try to say it using a fancy word she must have heard once somewhere, (exacerbate), and finally seize it from the back reaches of her cloudy memory, ta-dah! exasperate, and then use the same wrong word twice, it was like a light bulb went off for me: she’s pretty low wattage.

To be fair, that’s low wattage by the standard of who runs for Senate. In ordinary daily life, she’s probably brighter than 50 or 60 percent of the rest of the folks in the aisle at the supermarket.

Leaders, though, really ought to have more than the ability to get from the produce corner over to the dairy products. They ought to have some clue as to the general tone of the constitution and the main high notes. They ought to know something about history, geography, and so on. If they don’t know any science, would it be too much to ask that they at least know that they know nothing about it?