there are no stupid questions...
by John at 7/18/2006 02:35:00 PM
...only stupid people asking questions. So here's mine, with a little introduction first:
We are having a heatwave here on the mid-Altlantic coast (I understand it is also hot in some other less important places. Too bad for you). This happens every year, and every year, local governments and local aid organizations give out free fans to the elderly poor so they don't die of heat stroke. They do this because it is cheaper to buy a fan than it is to bury a dead person (or give emergency healthcare to a person who is not quite dead yet). So what happened to the fans they gave away the previous year? When autumn came, did all the elderly poor just throw their free fans away, thinking they probably wouldn't need them again?
Speaking of stupid, President George Bush tried to give an unsolicited shoulder rub to German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G-8 conference in St. Petersburg. Is that more or less stupid than when he appeared with his fly open at the APEC conference in Chile? I'm actually thinking "more stupid" but you could probably go either way.
We are having a heatwave here on the mid-Altlantic coast (I understand it is also hot in some other less important places. Too bad for you). This happens every year, and every year, local governments and local aid organizations give out free fans to the elderly poor so they don't die of heat stroke. They do this because it is cheaper to buy a fan than it is to bury a dead person (or give emergency healthcare to a person who is not quite dead yet). So what happened to the fans they gave away the previous year? When autumn came, did all the elderly poor just throw their free fans away, thinking they probably wouldn't need them again?
Speaking of stupid, President George Bush tried to give an unsolicited shoulder rub to German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G-8 conference in St. Petersburg. Is that more or less stupid than when he appeared with his fly open at the APEC conference in Chile? I'm actually thinking "more stupid" but you could probably go either way.
