In this job, I read (and occasionally write) a lot of stories about profoundly stupid people. Dumb to a degree that makes me think they’re existing in a different realm of consciousness that may transcend stupidity and loop back around into brilliance—a genius beyond mere mortal comprehension.

Or maybe they’re just really f**king dumb. I don’t know. I do know that this is one of those stories. A story about a person demonstrating a monumental degree of stupidity… but I also see the logic in it.

Anyway, a civilian employee at New Jersey’s massive Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst triggered a full-scale military lockdown because she wanted to “trauma bond” with her co-workers.

Holy s**t. Jesus Christ. What a dumba**. But also… if I extend my empathy to include the profoundly dumb, I think

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