O.K. I know to the vast majority of DUers this ain't news. But after reading the BuzzFlash.com interview with Molly Ivins
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/07/10_ivins.html where she said Bush is ignorant but not stupid I got to wondering.
Doing a Google search for a clinical definition for Stupidity I stumbled across The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
http://www.ecotopia.com/webpress/stupidity/ of Carlo Cipolla late professor of economics and authors of several books on economic history.
Cipolla's "Third (and Golden) Law: states:
A stupid person is a person who caused losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses. Seems to me that this defines Dubya's actions, not to mention those of the entire Republican cartel (from freshmen members of Congress up to Karl Rove,)to a tee.
This nation's not being misruled by the merely incompetant, but by the
stupid!! 
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