WDEHTBSS?

That's my blog shorthand for "Why does everything have to be so stupid?" I used to enjoy watching "The Office" because it cleverly combined comedy with the subtleties of the human condition. I sort of lost track of it for a while, but watched it tonight. The show did not just jump the shark: the entire episode took place in a shark infested tank, worse even than the lamest of the SNL skits. The writers must all have been stoned; that's the only viable explanation for the stupidity. But then, I'm reminded of the Secret Service Agents who do drugs and consort with whores while on a mission. Are they stupid, or stoned? And if they weren't stupid before they got stoned, how could they engage in such idiotic behavior. Arrogance can't be the answer because arrogance presumes at least a modicum of pride in oneself, which could not exist among such repugnance and complete lack of thought. Their minds must have been essentially eaten away by drugs. To paraphrase Dan Quayle, a mind is a terrible thing to waste, and not to have a mind (left) at all, that's even worse.