[early 21st century American protologism, 'numbskull', dimwit; dolt + 'skulduggery', mean dishonesty or trickery]
n.
A strategy, action, or conspiracy marked by outright stupidity and undertaken with malign intent.
August 25, 2008
QOTD:
“ Aurora police arrested a longtime drug user Sunday afternoon during a routine traffic stop where the man was seen “weaving,” sources said. Three possible other accomplices also were arrested, according to police. Police found four weapons, including two high-powered, scoped rifles along with camouflage clothing, walkie-talkies, a bulletproof vest, a spotting scope, licenses in the names of other people and methamphetamine. One of the rifles is listed as stolen from Kansas. That arrest then led authorities to a second man staying at the Cherry Creek Hotel at 600 South Colorado Blvd in Glendale. When authorities knocked on the man’s door, they say he jumped out of his sixth floor window, landing on an awning and running from the scene. They say they soon found him with a broken ankle. He too was arrested. CBS4 reported one of the suspects told authorities they were “going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a … rifle … sighted at 750 yards.” Law-enforcement sources told CBS4 that one of the suspects “was directly asked if they had come to Denver to kill Obama. He responded in the affirmative.
