Not long ago, my brother and I were driving down Main St. on a Friday night. We were pulled over by a police officer. The officer had time only to ask us for our drivers licences and registration, before we heard the sickening crunch of twisted metal. It seemed that a young man, who was driving a lifted Ford pickup, had been mesmerized by the flashing red and blue lights on the patrol car. Failing to look where he was going, he crashed into the rear of the four door car stopped at the light. It was obvious that he was rubber necking, and paying more attention to us than the road. With a frustrated growl, the police officer let us go. As we drove away, we saw the young man standing outside his vehicle wearing a foolish grin, shrugging his shoulders as the police officer spoke to him. I sat, amazed at the sheer stupidity of the driver, and his amusement in a situation that should be somber, or at least serious.

I read an article about two years ago in wh

Through the course of human history, we have evolved from the ape. Some of our members have broken away from the normal process of evolution. Approximately 50% of the population seems to have lost common sense, become dumb, stupid, annoying, moronic, idiotic, rude, grumpy, and clueless. I think all of this accounts for the stupidity of society. Most of us do stupid things once in a while, that's ok. You laugh about it and move on. But when your stupidity starts affecting other people, then you are part of the 50% and there is no way out.

Stupidity warrants our attention now more than ever, as its costs have increased to the point that we no longer can afford it as we have in the past. Hopefully, by studying this aspect of our behavior, everyone might learn how to reduce the incidence of this phenomenon in the future. However, if nothing else, I think that Bob Hope said it best "Your ignorance cramps my conversation."

Judas Iscariot, was the disciple, and apostle, and the betrayer, of the Son of God. "And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests, to betray him to them. Who on hearing it were glad; and they promised him they would give him money." In this account, notice that Judas takes the initiative; he is not tempted and seduced by the priests, but approaches them on his own accord. Perhaps the most significant thing that can be said of Judas Iscariot was that in feeling sorrow for his crime of betrayal, he did not seek to atone for his sin to Jesus, whom he had wronged, but went to his accomplices in crime. The priests, payed him for betraying Jesus, and sent him on his way. He went out and hung himself, supposedly in guilt. Since, Judas has become the archetype of the betrayer in Western culture. In Dante's Inferno, he is condemned to the lowest circle of Hell, eternally frozen into ice. Notice that Judas betrays god. How much more stupid can you get then that? He had everything going for him and then he gives it all up for thirty pieces of silver. Shortly there after, knowing and understanding what he has done, he compounds his sin by committing suicide, the ultimate height of brainlessness

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