Sidewalk Scholar

Using nothing more than a Sharpie and a single piece of stained poster board, Ulyses Gutierrez of California has handily attained Ultimate Dumbass® status in this one-man protest outside the family home of the octuplets born to Nadya Suleman last month.

Mr. Gutierrez clenched his new title by employing the following tactics:

• Use of "apologetic" quotes
  I've spent my life being annoyed by this. Quotation marks are not just yours to throw around willy-nilly. Treat them with a little respect.
• Misspelling "babies"
  I have an ironic fear of misspelling the word "misspelling". I know how to spell it, but I still look it up very time I use it, lest I should be the pot who calls the kettle black.
• Unnecessary apostrophe
  I have a feeling he wasn't sure about this. He painstakingly colored in the letters of "Babys", but it looks like he put in the apostrophe as an afterthought, undoubtedly saying to himself, "If it doesn't go there, maybe nobody will notice. If it does, I can point out that it's there, but it's small." See? A foolproof plan.

And yes, I know that Ms. Suleman appears to be a little nuts. But I bet she can make a pretty nice poster.