"Even if you're not usually interested in distinctions between different kinds of stupid, I submit that in this not entirely pleasant year (see index under 'political primaries') there's a little room for some good stupid. While watching the ABC competition show Wipeout when it premiered six weeks ago, I became at moments a truly happy idiot, and I could hear my brain cells, one after another, packing their suitcases and walking out of my head, saying regretfully but firmly, 'I'm sorry, I just can't live here anymore.' Well, fine. Go, then. Still ,it's not as though I'm addicted to stupidity, so after a couple of episodes I forgot about Wipeout and moved on to Bill Moyers. Then, scanning last week's onscreen TV schedule, I was stopped by the description of Wipeout and was pulled back in: 'Obstacles include Foamy Launch Pads and Killer Surf.' That's all I needed to hear... ."
Okay, so I couldn't care less about this TV show, which I've never even heard of before now, but that's just one damn fine piece of writing!
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