Re: stupid vs ignorant...
I got the twelve inches to the foot.
I got the 5280 feet in a mile.
Then, working on my second bottle of old growth, old vine Zinfandel, I was drawing a brain cramp on the speed of light. Then, from somewhere back in the memory hole it came at 186,282. I remembered that there was fraction beyond that, but .... either I ain't sober or drunk enough to remember.
It ain't an ignorant population, it's a population too stupid to learn.