dumbness

I spoke to Borowitz for a recent episode of "Salon Talks" about his deeply researched book on the GOP's long arc into paralyzing dumbness.

In marble the distance between the two — between fleetingness and survival, between expressiveness and dumbness — is immense.

“Your brain. It’s too fast. So you stumble on other people’s dumbness. And—you want to kick something.”

Scripting the ferocious dumbness of the trademark voice-over copy was truly an art form.

Tim got the two lilac bushes, one French purple, the other white — an alarming gift, lilacs being so evocative of the depth and dumbness of death’s kingdom that they made Tim cry.