<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 9, 2009, at Anna Taylor wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Actually I think "stupid" could at times be replaced by "ignorance".</span></blockquote><br></div><div>And I think "stupid" is a perfectly respectable word that does an adequate job describing a certain type of brain function and I see no reason not to use it where appropriate. Such as, religion is stupid. </div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div><br></body></html>