Dumbass-ness

Since I haven’t been reading Willamette Week for a while, I only found out through my alumni magazine that Marty Smith, who I sort-of-knew long ago at Reed and for a couple years beyond, is now appearing weekly as “Dr. Know” in a Q&A column in the paper. A week ago, the question was about the costs of mountain rescue efforts, and his answer was witty and informative but it was upstaged for me by this comment’s opening line:

I don’t think you are a real doctor of anything other than dumbass-ness.