Stupid is as stupid does.

"Stupid is as stupid does." I say it all the time. Mostly when driving in Wisconsin, but who doesn't remember that famous line from Forest Gump? Amanda J. Kessler, Sean Kelly, Raul Gaucin-Valenzuela, Todd Stroger, and The United States of America don't.

It's amazing. Stupid is like an infectious disease, spreading from one unsuspecting idiot to us all. No Turn On Red signs sprout up everywhere because one or two stupid people have forced the county and state to protect us all from ourselves. Warning labels that every single person with a shred of common sense don't need adorn everything from gas pumps to irons. But the sheer stupidity of people trumps it all.

Amanda J. Kessler didn't think it was enough to just be charged with a DUI, she drove herself to court and showed up, you guessed it, drunk. Sean Kelly apparently disliked his brand new brother in-law so much he punched him in the face. AT HIS OWN WEDDING. Wonder what that Thanksgiving dinner will be like next year. Raul Gaucin-Valenzuela broke into a home to help a buddy beat up the the buddy's ex-girlfriends new boyfriend, only to run into a couple of kids. HIS kids. He didn't know the ex-girlfriend was the baby sitter of his own kids. And Todd Stroger? Not that I really need to point any one thing out, he seems to have STUPID branded on his forehead. But he called a group of African-American reporters to his campaign headquarters to try and get the media on his side for once. And then failed to show up at his own meeting.

But it is the great US of A that gets my vote for "Knucklehead Move of the Decade". It turns out that a full 20% of released really nasty bad guys from the Guantanamo prison have returned to the "battlefield" to continue the jihad against us. Including the potential mastermind of the failed Christmas day bombing of the Detroit bound jetliner. (Side question: Hasn't poor Detroit suffered enough? Not only are the auto plants all shutting down and houses going for like $20, but the Pistons suck and they are still stuck with The Lions. If I was a terrorist I'd aim for Lambeau Field)
(Side note #2: After I wrote and posted this, I read in Fridays paper that Rep Mark Kirk,naval inelligence officer, says that EVERY current Taliban leader in Afghanistan is a former Gitmo guest. EVERY ONE.)

Listen, people aren't born stupid, and countries like the US become mega-world powers by not being stupid. Something has to happen along the way to become stupid. Maybe this election thingy every couple of years should be a wake up call to not elect stupid people. But if people themselves are too stupid to research candidates and believe the campaign BS they spew, then we get what we deserve. Now if we could only get Verizon to come up with an app for that we'd all feel better.