Various stupid things

1. One of the exercises in our French book was something like "Europeans often speak three or four languages. How many do you speak?" It gave me flashbacks to Brussels, a freakishly European city in which everyone speaks four or five languages no sweat. And that makes me feel like a Stupid American.
1a. Also, all conjugated French verbs sound the same and I miss Spanish.

2. Speaking of Stupid Americans, I think that 9/11 conspiracy theorists are some of the least intelligent in the broad classification of Stupid Americans. "OMG building 7 shouldn't have collapsed!!" "OMG the wings of the plane that hit the Pentagon broke apart but the landing gear didn't look CONSPIRACY!"

One: Getting pelted by fiery debris makes buildings collapse sometimes, dipwit. Two: The landing gear of a plane (which, you know, [i]supports the planes weight as it lands[/i]) is probably stronger than the wings, which just act as wings. Three: Okay, so if it was a government conspiracy, why are we still so sure that they didn't actually just send government heavies to hijack the planes? Why must it be missiles/planted bombs/lasers/Jews running the banks?

3. I understand Galileo so far which makes me feel not-stupid.