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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I just ran across an article( <a href="http://www.physics.uofl.edu/williger/unskilled_and_unaware_1999.pdf">Unskilled and Unaware of It: How difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to inflated Self-Assessments</a> ) which begins: “It is one of the essential features of such incompetence that the person so afflicted is incapable of knowing that he is incompetent.” The obvious focus of the article – one frequently discussed on this forum - is the ignorance of those who don’t know what they don’t know and proceed stupidly down the road risking the lives and well being of others.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Until now my two favorite examples of willfully moronic, self-aggrandizing, ninnyhood included direct entry midwives – hiding behind the bogus claims that they are well-trained, competent, and a safe alternative to professionally credentialed and academically trained medical providers, and Doug Wilson with his unending grandiose posing and specious claims of unverified expertise that ranges from counseling sexual predators (a dismissive hand wave to Steven Sitler, Jamin Wight and all their Kirk pals and defenders) to an unpleasant bent for designing a private educational system with the requisite Tom Brown’s School Days use of beating miscreant students into subjugation. I offer, at this point, a limp salute to Dorothy Sayer, Doug’s muse, who had no teaching experience but did have a child at thirty that she passed off to her aunt and cousin as soon as she delivered him – he was acknowledged as her son only after her death - no academic administrative experience, yet, none the less felt qualified to author the <i><a href="http://www.gbt.org/text/sayers.html">The Lost Tools of Learning</a></i> – which curiously begins: “That I, whose experience of teaching is extremely limited, should presume to discuss education is a matter, surely, that calls for no apology.” What a pair of silly, self-important gits.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But more to the point, and certainly front and center right now, the Tea Party fruitcakes, the Neo-confederate (hey Doug, you fit in this category too) jackasses who have no understanding of economics, (or contemporary science), will eagerly risk the financial well being of this country, including the devaluing of our currency and will, no doubt, delight in the subsequent worldwide financial panic for the pleasure of embarrassing the President. They and their fellow travelers are beneath contempt.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rose Huskey<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>