Economists tend to blame others for being too lazy or too stupid to understand their textbooks.

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If being slow and stupid makes for a successful congressman (or woman), then that is Darwinism at work.

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More than 1, 000 miles away, Jindal reiterated his call for the GOP to stop being "the stupid party, " insisting that Republicans must expand their message beyond budget austerity and shrinking government.

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"Our lives at this point are speeding up.....it's so nice to just sit with people and go back to the way things used to be where it really is about being together for an hour and talking smack about stupid stuff, " says Mr. Corgan, who also owns a professional wrestling promotion company.

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Ahead of its publication this morning, the Institute for Fiscal Studies assessment of the prospects for Scottish independence was being dismissed as coming from the "too poor, too stupid school of scaremongering".

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Maybe then instead of dismissing the Noltes and Lindsay Lohans of the world as being stupid enough to get caught, the public would view celebrities who are arrested for drunken driving as reminders that they could be caught, too.

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Last year, activists from Plane Stupid occupied the roof for three hours in protest against Heathrow expansion, resulting in five activists being found guilty of trespass.

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