The Year of Living Stupidly

A snippet from Joel Stein’s ‘The Year of Living Stupidly’ essay featured in TIME magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ issue that made me chuckle:

“The Mayor of Detroit communicated with his mistress by text-messaging, a form of communication so obviously insecure that the President is not allowed to do it and teenagers are.
The whole world seemed to go insane. The President of Georgia dared the Russians to attack, which always results in invasion unless there is someone else at the exact same moment daring Russians to drink…
Who wasn’t taking risks? The banks. When the government gave them money to get them lending again they pretended that they would hand it out as per the agreed-upon rules, and when no on was looking, they smartly held on to all of it, which we all know is the only real way to win Monopoly.”