Have you ever met a Powerpoint presentation that didn’t put fire to sleep?

Apparently some in the US Military agree with us.  [a new kind of bullet point]

“PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.

They don’t really spend that much time working up Powerpoint presentations, right?

Last year when a military Web site, Company Command, asked an Army platoon leader in Iraq, Lt. Sam Nuxoll, how he spent most of his time, he responded, “Making PowerPoint slides.” When pressed, he said he was serious.

Microsoft Office was not available for comment.

h/t KatieHarbath via Almacy