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When Evil Met Stupid
by Matthew Hubbard | Apr 22 2007


The question is asked all the time, by people of all political stripes. Is some person evil or just incompetent? Is some horrible situation caused by evil or incompetence? We want the simplest answer, but in this world, simple isn’t always correct. In too many situations today, we have collisions of Evil and Stupid, and they always conspire to make the world worse.

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7. The TV show 24 is so popular, the Army wants the lead actor to come to the Pentagon to tell the current and future military interrogators that in reality, torture doesn’t get the vital confession before the next commercial break.
File under: Evil as entertainment meets Stupid as a way of life.

8. Boston is shut down for hours by ads for Aqua Teen Hunger: The Movie.
File under: Stupid mistakes Lite-Brites™ for Evil.

9. The Democratic Congress buys the Washington conventional wisdom that the public has no stomach for the impeachments of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush.
File under: The Stupidity of cowardice in battle meets the Evil of self-serving lethargy.

10. George W. Bush…
File under: Don’t bother with the details. He’s got his own category.