Next time you hear about some new form of financial innovation, or pernicious legislative compromise, or are beset by erratic drivers while on the road, or must contend with corporate employment, or are forced to view commercial television with the attendant advertising, or any number of additional trials of everyday life in our fine country, perhaps you can make use of the following lists I ran across the other day between calls at the Happy Fun Work Place while accumulating the weekly pittance...

I.Q. Scales as Classified by Psychologists

Idiot - 0-25
Imbecile - 26-50
Moron - 51-70

Profound mental retardation Below 20
Severe mental retardation 20-34
Moderate mental retardation 35-49
Mild mental retardation 50-69
Borderline intellectual functioning 70-79



Have fun - now you can better assort those who brighten your day with their simple antics, perhaps rendering an opinion from the Supreme Court or making a pronouncement from a right-wing think tank on a pseudo-news cable channel, or formulating ways to generate eight-figure paydays for executive management by lowering wages and increasing the burden of the most humble of workers...

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