Soccer Mom: Unplugged

It's increasingly tough to single out the biggest idiot(s) in the news.  After all, there are just so many to choose from.  You've got Rosie O'Donnell announcing she's depressed and that she no longer gets "clips" from American Idol (YAWN) and the ACLU suing for better accomodations for incarcerated illegals (because, of course, we should be giving them incentives to break the law).  You've got Mayan priests who're planning to purify the site of Pres. Bush's visit next week to remove bad spirits and a jury that convicts Scooter Libby then demands that the President pardon him.  If that were all, it's be a good week.  But between Fadhel al-Maliki setting LAX on its ear because he stuck wire filament and a magnet in his rectum before going through the metal detectors and Lauren Berrios climing to be fired (in liberal New York) for being a witch and then finding employment in the Bible Belt, there is no shortage of nominees for this week's honor. 

An honorable mention has to go to John Edwards who can apparently channel Jesus Christ and assures us that Americans are selfish - never mind that he owns a 28,000 square foot home in a state where you can't throw a rock without hitting a trailer park.  And of course, a shout out to all the spineless conservatives who are running from Ann Coulter with their tails between their legs because she referenced the Isaiah Washington incident in a joke about political correctness interfering with her ability to publicly discuss candidates she dislikes.  Huge faux pas there, Ann, assuming your listeners actually read the papers.

While we're talking politics, we must mention Hillary's sudden discovery of her black roots - no, not the ones in her hair - the ones she found in Selma.  And we can't leave out the fact that the big Global Warming conference was heralded with snow for a second time this week.

It would hardly be fair to announce this week's FUBAR award winer without first mentioning the stiffest competition.  First up, anyone and everyone involved in the coverup at Walter Reid.  Ya'll should ba ashamed!  Right on the heels of those schmucks, the Warren Township School officials (Indiana) who refused to comment on the fact that a pair of 6th graders had intercourse DURING CLASS.  If someone held the NEA to the same standard that the courts demanded for the Boston Archdioses, we'd have already bankrupted countless public school systems all over this country.  But, I digress.

This week's award goes to an entire legislative body, not for an act of commission but for an act of omission.  Some Florida lawmakers forgot to close the legal gaps that would have demanded accountability from the three people sharing a trailer with John Evander Couey while he raped and tortured his 9 year old victim Jessica Lunsford.  Even though Couey was found guilty this week, the three co-inhabitants of the single wide mobile home where Jessica spent several agonizing days and nights are walking around scot free.  At least one of the trailer's inhabitants even entered the bedroom where Jessica was kept and we are supposed to believe he had no knowledge of her presence in a space that's probably less than 8x9 feet.  Sound reasonable to you?  Not to me - that ought to be the definition of FUBAR.

*** Side note: my nomination for best article of the weekend is this editorial about the Nevada Democratic Debate sponsored by FNC.***