How stupid is the public, really?
I just wrote a couple of notes on the government and media’s incredible ability to insult the intelligence of the public. That is, they never cease to amaze me with ground-breaking news stories like that unleashed by the NIE report. If that wasn’t enough, here’s another spectacular bombshell from CNN.com’s front page:
“Rumsfeld: Insurgency was underestimated”
It’s bad enough that they are shoveling tripe down our throats. Now we are asked to wash it down with a nice warm glass of ipecac.
-W.
posted by William H. Harwood at 11:58 PM
2 Comments:
There was a big word in there I had to look up.
ipecac |ˈipikak| (also ipecacuanha |ˌipiˌkak(y)oōˈan(y)ə; ēˌpākə-|) noun
1 the dried rhizome of a South American shrub, or a drug prepared from this, used as an emetic and expectorant.
2 the shrub of the bedstraw family that produces this rhizome, native to Brazil and cultivated elsewhere. • Cephaelis ipecacuanha, family Rubiaceae. • used in names of other plants with similar uses, e.g., American ipecac ( Gillenia trifoliata, family Rosaceae).
Okay, but what's "Rhizome"?
rhizome |ˈrīˌzōm| noun Botany a continuously growing horizontal underground stem that puts out lateral shoots and adventitious roots at intervals. Compare with bulb (sense 1), corm .
Apparently you did not swallow enough insane things as a child. Ipecac is a must for mothers with curious children. (Some would say "stupid," but I like to think it stems from a sense of adventure...)
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