The crime rate did drop significantly during Guliani’s years. Whether or not he had a lot to do with it is debatable but it did happen. And not too many people thought it would happen. Anyone remember the “crack babies will grow up deranged” scare of the 1980s.
Keith Olberman. Like Al Gore he has become rich but he is a complete idiot.
Joe Bicen could give Dan Quayle a run for his money in talking about how FDR went on TV to calm people after the stock market collapse and his “recovery summer” nonsense.
Obama is looking as stupid as Bush with his “shovel ready jobs weren’t as shovel ready as we thought” and continually high unemployment. Oh, and how come Gitmo is still open and we have three wars and 1.5 trillion deficits after you denounced Dubya for having them and $250 billion deficits? Not to mention the tax cuts have been extended because you couldn’t pass a budget despite controlling both houses for two years?
I remember a Penthouse article in the late 1970s on this subject that suggested George Washington, Ulysses Grant, Richard Burton and James Aubrey.
I can’t remember the name of the Republican congressman who in the 1980s was voted one of the 10 stupidest people in congress and called a press conference to deny it.
Sonny Bono never struck me as smart but he did become successful in music, tv, restaurant and politics. I suppose Dean Martin would be the same but he did get out of the steel mills and was the successful one after he and Jerry Lewis split (Tom Snyder once said that he and everyone else were surprised by that).
Anna Nicole Smith was so stupid and drugged out that she ended up working in the day shift of a strip club because she was so inept. As it happened that was the only time a Texas millionaire in his 80s could go to the club and she married him.
You can find a zillion athletes like Mike Tyson and Lenny Dykstra who make huge amounts of money and blow it.
I second Hilton. We think of her in terms of the family money but she’s made literally tens of millions of her own from her entertainment career and various product sidelines by allowing half the population to sneer at her and the other half to envy her. Dumb but really successful.
I’m no fan of PAris Hilton, but I’ll say that the Wal-Mart comment was intended as a poke in the ribs to the Walton fmaily, one of the Hilton’s peer rivals in the social wars.
Errr…that’s because they are 2 separate words, both of which are in any dictionary.
It is a single-word modifier so a hyphen may be used, similarly with smart-ass or half-assed.
But as 2 separate words they don’t convey the same sense.
Also, a single-word modifier modifies a word – it’s used adjectivally, not as a noun. It is incorrect to say “Bobby is a smart-ass,” but correct to say “Bobby made a smart-assed remark,” which is often colloquially shortened to “a smart-ass remark.”
