Nancy Morgan presents the Idiots of the Week.

TOP IDIOTS OF THE WEEK:

Once again we have a tie for the winner of this week's Top Idiot:

White House Communications director Anita Dunn joins the ranks of Top Idiots, for being stupid enough to reveal, on camera, that one of her favorite philosophers is mass murderer Mao Tse Tung. In a speech to high school students, no less.

Obama's Justice Department ties for Top Idiot. They just overruled the citizens of a small North Carolina town who had voted to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections. The reason?? The Justice Department decided that equal rights for black voters cannot be achieved without the Democratic Party. I kid you not.

RUNNER-UP:

Another government entity, the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), is a close second. They are actively promoting the same type of loans that caused the mortgage meltdown. Maybe the real idiots are us taxpayers, who will, once again, be stuck with the bill when more deadbeats default.

HONORABLE MENTION:

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals – for ruling that victims of Hurricane Katrina have standing to sue over global warming. Huh???

TOP ECO-IDIOT:

This week's award goes to Emily Douglas, Web editor for The Nation magazine. She said, and apparently believes, that making the "recession worse" and making goods "more expensive" for Americans are means to reduce consumerism and preserve the environment. 

TOP PC IDIOT:

This award goes to whatever government agency in the UK fined a West Yorks farmer 150 pounds for keeping a cow in a darkened barn, therefore failing to "meet the psychological needs" of the bovine. I am not making this stuff up.

CRIMINALLY STUPID:

A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases. She ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax. And the moral of this story is . . .?

A Michigan woman called Saginaw County sheriff's deputies to report the theft of her marijuana plants. She was was booked on charges of manufacturing and delivering marijuana. Duh.

A Pennsylvania Civil War buff faces a felony charge for accidentally firing a 2-pound cannonball through the wall of his neighbor's home. Oops.

A Canadian man performed an amateur circumcision on his four-year-old son on the floor of the family kitchen. He has been found guilty of criminal negligence.

JUST PLAIN WEIRD: 

An Australian woman was given a choice by her husband: give up her pet crocodile or give up her husband. She chose her pet crocodile, Johnie, and filed for divorce. Which has since been granted. Idiot?

A 75-year-old dead man sat decomposing on his Marina del Rey balcony for days because neighbors thought the body was part of a Halloween display.

A 22-year-old German man mooning railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half-naked along the platform, out of the station and onto the tracks.

So many idiots, so little space. Till next week, keep smiling.