One of the worst things a person can be is stupid. Stupidity is one of the greatest conceivable evils. Yet it isn't a sin at all. It is something no-one, with the exception of novelist Hasek's Good Soldier Svejk, deliberately chooses to be. What is inflicted on you at birth, which you couldn't help, did nothing to provoke, can hardly qualify as sin. And yet. . . .Right next to it, as far as I'm concerned, is ob…
SOURCE: John Simon at 01:11AM on July 20, 2014