The Olympics of Dumb

As reported by NPR – Talk show maestro Charlie Rose recently asked Drew Faust, president of Harvard, if she is worried about the dumbing down of the culture. “I worry about attention span,” Faust said, “because people will not listen to more than a couple of sentences or read more than a couple of sentences. Does everything have to be a sound bite? Is everything to be digested into something brief? And aren’t there complicated ideas that we ought to have the patience to give our attention to?”

As dumb becomes a national virtue, only the dumbest stand out. Then they move to Washington, D.C.

pass the Xanax.

posted by Mudd