21.   Thankfully, this dumb idea died, a victim of partisan bickering.

22.   The campaign season often gives rise to dumb ideas.

23.   The incoming governor, William Weld, thought MASS MoCA was a dumb idea.

24.   This hope, however, is based on the assumption that politicians carry more or less the same number of dumb ideas per capita.

25.   They were playing three-card monte, which is a dumb idea, and softball, which is not, and reading the papers on park benches.

26.   This is too bad, because crankery is more entertaining when it is focused on a single dumb idea than on a person.

27.   We have had to endure some really dumb ideas that automakers incorporated into their cars, apparently without giving them much thought.