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• n  a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience
• n  a stupid mistake

• THE NATURAL SCIENCE OF STUPIDITY (288 pp.
• The sheer meanness and downright stupidity of the vituperation is an indication of the intellectual bankruptcy of what currently passes for black leadership.
• While this all sounds familiar enough, it's Leonard's poignant questions and provocative truth-telling that help us see the profound stupidity of this system.

• betise
• folly
• foolishness
• imbecility

• intelligence

News & Articles

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• A ranking of Pac-12 Stadiums
  Every year during the preseason, we rank things -- best this, best that. It's highly subjective. And fans seem to like it. We know that because it makes so many of you apoplectic at our bias and stupidity. Athlon Sports has ranked the Pac-12 stadiums. Here's its completely defensible list. Auzten Stadium, Oregon Husky Stadium, Washington Rose Bowl, UCLA LA Coliseum, USC Folsom Field, Colorado ...
  June 13, 2013 - ESPN Blogs
• Letter: Things to be admired
  Big things are to be admired, even stupidity. So said Samuel Johnson, 18th century lexicographer, critic, poet and conversationalist. All of which brings to mind regulations, ordinances, procedures and so forth that stultify progress.
  June 12, 2013 - Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal
• No, Trent Franks Is Not Todd Akin
  Ever since Todd Akin exposed his boundless stupidity, and handed Democrats political gold, by insisting that raped women can't get pregnant, liberals have been looking for more Akins.
  June 12, 2013 - New York Magazine

Quotes

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• Martin Luther King in Canada Free Press
  Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
• James Carville in ABC News
  The "political stupidity is unbelievable," Democratic strategist James Carville said on "Good Morning America" today. "The president doesn't get down here in the middle of this. ...... I have no idea of why they didn't seize this thing. I...
• Dennis Farina in Reuters Canada
  I apologize to anyone and everyone that I have caused any embarrassment or inconvenience to,Farina said. "It is my own stupidity to find myself in this embarrassing situation. I'll be spending the next few days kicking my own a--. No one...