So much for cheaper CDs and the Do Not Call list. All this and Bush is still president? Arrrrgggghhhhhhh!

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Two very different examples of how you can be smart and stupid at once.

Exhibit A: Well-educated, possibly brilliant, but with the common sense of weasel spit*:
A group of graduate students. All at least 21 years old and college-educated; most will have PhDs by the end of the decade. They're waiting in a line that stretches to the curb. Instead of curving the queue to the left or the right, they extend it right into the street. A real, two-lane street with cars coming. They're almost into the second lane by the time someone (a professor?) comes by and tells them to pull their heads out of their asses and stand on the sidewalk. (But without the ass-head part, unfortunately).

Exhibit B: Street-smart, well-endowed with common sense, but frighteningly ignorant:
There's someone I've worked with who knows all there is to know about the food/bar business. She's run her own catering company. She's very efficient; the best worker you've got at any given job. But until last week, she thought there were 52 states in America (yes, she is native-born). Today, she referred to the language spoken in Mexico as "Mexican."

Help.

* Dave Barry Rule of Humor #97: When you haven't been funny in a while, say "weasel spit." (I am making this up).