More like denial, actually. I work at a university, fer crissakes. The assertion that no one can be that stupid flies in the face of my daily experience, but it’s one of the few things standing between me and utter despair.

I believe the new liberal fallback position is that South Africa is full of AIDS, therefore we must Do Something. Your liberal playbook must have gotten lost in the mail. You should request a new one. (Their positions are changing so fast, though, that they can hardly keep up. I hear they’ll be switching to a spreadsheet format soon.)

I believe that stupid, attractive people can lead useful lives in such fields as acting, wearing clothes, pointing to prizes in game shows, taking off clothes, and marrying rich old goats. It’s when they start hankering after intellectual respectability that the mischief begins.

You have a too sunny view of humanity, Mr. Atoz, if you believe that no one can be that dumb.

It shows 1. that she’s even more ignorant than it first appeared, I mean, why even mention S. Africa other than to make some tired point from 1990. and B. that she was trying to pander, she’s just too ignorant to do so believably.

I’m not inclined to cut her any slack. She’s in the pageant, so she’s obviously done well in school, and its apparently due to playing the right game and the fact she’s an attractive girl. Getting by being pretty but ignorant is kind of despicable. Its why everyone hates John Edwards, for example, but at least he has the redeeming quality of deviousness and hateful, calculated mean-spiritedness, which is why he’s pretty and rich, even though he’s ignorant and thick.

Deviousness and dishonesty will get a stupid, attractive person by in the world, as many of our celebs prove daily.