“A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.”

I think of the amazing things would could accomplish as a people and a species if we were not hobbled by being chained to such brazenly stupid people.   If we don’t have the mental acuity to think beyond labels such as “progressive” and “liberal”  and instead think in terms of “people who generally favor some tangible benefit for the vast majority of people” – what hope do we have?

Read the essay by Carlo M. Cipolla that Alby mentioned last week.   It explains so much about Republican Banditry and our national stupidity.