What WERE They Thinking?

Cover Girl RuPaul


Every now and then each of us does something that, in retrospect, is SO dumb that we end up either asking or answering (over and over) the question, "What were you (was ) thinking?" Of course, everything at the time seems like the most logical thing to do, at least to those of us who stumble into Idiotland.
Sometimes, it's a simple as backing out of a parking spot directly into another automobile that was sitting there all the time or making a statement guaranteed to keep an argument going for, let's say, weeks. Some of those "open mouth, insert foot" moments are never forgotten. "Sure, I can help out" is a recipe for disaster every time because then everyone else simply walks away and leaves you holding the proverbial bag.
Of course, there are transgressions that literally leave us stupefied, and there are many of them:
"Hiking in the Adirondacks"
"Depends on what your definition of 'is' is."
NBC hiring then sacking Conan O'Brien.
Us believing that Brett Favre was really going to retire.
See what I mean?
Then, there are the seriously egregious acts that transfix a whole nation or at least a large part of it:
Sarah Palin as VP candidate.
Brittany Griner smacking Jordan Barcastlel in Baylor's most recent basketball game. What? You didn't see that? Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9T4wvwRDsw

Tiger Woods in general.
But this might be the biggest head scratcher of all: three teachers at Los Angeles' Wadsworth Avenue Elementary school were suspended recently for a most improbable lapse in judgment. In celebration of Black History Month in the mostly minority school, teachers were asking students to wear photos during the school day of influential black people throughout history. The choices from these men?
O.J. Simpson
Dennis Rodman
RuPaul
Really.
What WERE they thinking?