
So under Basic Stupid, our second runner-up is Americans - all of us, or at least a majority. In May, CivicScience, a Pittsburgh-based market research firm, released a new poll they had done of more than 3600 Americans on the issue of mathematics instruction.
In response to one question, 56% of the respondents said Arabic numerals should not be taught in American schools; jst 29% said they should be part of the curriculum; while 16% offered no opinion.
And if you don't get why that is some Clown combination of ignorance plus a soupçon of bigotry, these are Arabic numerals: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9.
And before you start going "Oh those stupid right wingers again," know that when respondents were sorted into three categories, GOPper, Democrat, and Independent, not one of those three showed a majority in favor of teaching those numerals in American schools.
Our first runner-up is an unnamed woman in Lincoln, Nebraska. That city has more than 50 sculptures installed in various places as a public art project called "Serving Hands Lincoln."
The sculptures each consist of a pair of hands, open and holding something like a butterfly, a field of grain, flags of the world, the moon, whatever.

She claimed it to be anti-Christian, demonic, ugly, perverse, and a "hate crime against the church."
The picture on the right shows the sculpture. Yep, the hands were those of Spiderman.
Footnote: The city said no, we are not removing the sculpture.
But our winner would have to rank among an all-time top 10 if I ever were to make such a list.
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Rev. Dan Rehill |
Seriously.
Quoting the email: "These books present magic as both good and evil, which is not true, but in fact a clever deception. The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells; which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text."
Personally, I think that's just Riddikulus.
Rev. Dan Reehil of St. Edward's Roman Catholic grammar school in Nashville, Tennessee: Clown of the Year, Basic Stupid category.
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