Shopping carts, phone apps...these can be irritating, sure. But there are times people do things so outrageously brainless that I long for a more bitter word than 'stupid.'

For example: a young woman just drove her car into running floodwaters, drowning herself and her 4-year-old son. Here in the Midwest, TV, radio, weathercasters, and the National Weather Service tell people again and again not to do that. Where was her brain?

A little girl known to the public as LP was rescued from her abusive (half-crazy) mother, who'd locked her in a closet and hardly fed herfor several years. LP went to Children's Hospital for a good while, then was given to a foster family. The doctors told the family to keep her calorie intake under 1800 a day, because her body was not yet ready to process large amounts of food.

The foster family ignored that, and LP was taken to McDonald's etc and allowed to eat far more than 1800 a day. The result: LP has been sent to St Louis and has had to have a heart transplant, because her foster parents thought they knew more than pediatricians.

We need a word for people who weren't just born stupid, they are bound and determined to be stupid.