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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:00 AM

Miss dumb blond USA?

Our national embarrassment over a South Carolina teenage contestant's world knowledge.
Rebecca Traister

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  • Wednesday, August 29, 2007 11:11 PM

    *sigh* my dear Healthyskeptic.

    I have a very keen intellectual interest about a lot of things, but because I had no desire to get into a slanging match about our respective countries you call me lazy. Nice. Especially since I've been nothing but courteous in disagreeing with you.

    All I asked is that you don't accuse others of what you are doing yourself. Don't tell Andrew Burke he is guilty of generalising and then proceed to do it yourself. That's all I will say. That's a lazy man's arguing and you are supposedly so much better than that.

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