Your humble columnist has been bestowing these not so-great honors upon politicians and regular Joes since 2009. Think of the Dano Awards as the Nobel Prizes for Numbskulls.
We’ll begin the 2022 Dano Awards for Glaring Public Stupidity with a new and updated trophy. It’s of a bearded guy in a dunce cap holding a lighted joint.
At the end of each year, your humble columnist surveys the preceding 12 months and bestows awards honoring ignorance, sloth, stupidity or insanity by certain Virginia newsmakers. We re now accepting
Although weâve already made it to 2021, we still have a few loose ends to tie up from last year. A big one is the 2020 Dano Awards for Glaring Public Stupidity. Itâs named after yours truly because I manage to meet the seminal qualifications on a weekly (if not daily) basis.
But Iâm hardly unique in that regard. Thereâs a lot of stupidity going around, and the Dano Awards honor it. We had umpteen nominees this year. They were almost everywhere you looked. Often you could find them bare-faced in the grocery store.
Here are this yearâs winners, in no particular order: