My brief paean to stupidity left out Celebrity Boxing, for which I am properly ashamed. I understand from a Seattle native that Tonya Harding has had some experience at fisticuffs, apparently preferring the bar to the ring.
Today’s entry is devoted to that force against which even the gods strive in vain, stupidity. You have no doubt heard elsewhere that George W waved to Stevie Wonder at the Ford’s Theater Presidential Gala on March 3. Wonder “understandably did not respond.” Shame on Saturday Night Live for needlessly adding a punchline to this story.
Honorable Mention goes to The McLaughlin Group, where the topic was recently the proposed nuclear waste site in Nevada. Host John McLaughlin suggested (loudly, as always) that a dedicated surveillance satellite be placed “in geosynchronous orbit right over the site.” Which sounds nice but is physically impossible for any site not on the equator.
Still haven’t got my alotted 15 minutes of fame, but yesterday on All Things Considered there was a little installment: they read one of my letters on the air, regarding their obituary of Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land. Here’s how it sounded.
