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Tuesday, April 02, 2002
 
We could be living in an era so stupid that even the most intelligent among us are cement-heads.

This is almost certainly the case where I work, but that is not the point here. National Review points out this article by P. J. O'Rourke. All in all, I found it quite boring, yet I just kept on reading. Actually, this is not the first time that I have had such an experience with Mr. O'Rourke. Anyway, he pretty much tears apart some silly statement signed by 103 various Nobel Prize winners. Here's a quote. See if you can get through the rest.
Why do political bien-pensants automatically roll "dispossessed," "poor," and "disenfranchised" together, as if they have a natural correlation—like "ice," "cold," and "beer"? The Dalai Lama [Peace Prize 1989] is dispossessed. My parish priest is poor. And Alan Greenspan, as a resident of the District of Columbia, is ineligible to vote in congressional elections.