So much stupidity happens every day that sometimes it’s hard to keep up. I frequently have more stories than time to post them. Here are a few things that happened in the last week. Some are noteworthy, some are funny, and all are just plain stupid.

• Many Federal Bureau of Investigation special agents in New York don’t even have access to email, because there isn’t enough money to go around. Agents have been told to go get accounts with outside service providers such as Hotmail to communicate with people outside the bureau.
• There’s yet another senior management job opening at Homeland Security. This time, the undersecretary for management, Janet Hale, has resigned. She was responsible for integrating 22 disparate agencies under the DHS umbrella when the department was created, but was criticized for wanting to implement changes which would have made the department more efficient.
• Customs and Border Protection not only doesn’t have enough people to inspect all the cargo coming into U.S. ports, it doesn’t even have enough people to review the security plans of companies that ship goods to the U.S. So it wants to hire private companies to pick up some of the slack, one of the best ideas I’ve heard all day.
• The use of sensitive but unclassified designations for government documents has gotten out of hand, according to government auditors who testified before Congress last week. Documents as mundane as government telephone directories have received such designations because of “security concerns.” (Thanks!)
• New Orleans, La., mayor C. Ray Nagin has a problem. His devastated city is filled with 50,000 abandoned, destroyed cars. In order to get rid of them, a company offered to haul them away within three months and pay the city $5 million for them. What did Nagin do? He turned them down, and decided to spend $23 million on a government program that would take six months to remove all the cars. What a moron. (Thanks!)