We all have our lapses of judgment. But some of us make such horrendously poor decisions that one simply has to ask, “What were they on?”. Every week we bring you three contenders in what can only be described as a battle of small wits. So, with great pleasure we present this week’s three La Fee Absinthe-Minded Moment of the Week finalists. Inside we have the Anders Breivik, Magistrate Gugulethu Mphikeleli, and Peter de Villiers. But who claims the prize for the most mindbogglingly foolish tomfoolery of the week? Click through to find out!

Third place – Peter de Villiers

Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has made one positional change to his starting line-up for the Tri-Nations clash against the All Blacks in Wellington tomorrow. Patrick Lambie will occupy the flyhalf position and Morné Steyn will switch to the fullback position. Apparently, even though Steyn has only played two games at fullback since 2008, he has an idea about how Carter’s head works, and thus is the correct man for the job. Steyn will remain as our goal-kicker but it will be interesting to see how he handles the high-ball when guys like Nonu and Muliaina are charging at him.

Second place – Magistrate Gugulethu Mphikeleli

Every so often life presents us with an event that seems really hard to understand. This week Magistrate Gugulethu Mphikeleli convicted Daryl Peense of assaulting President Jacob Zuma by spilling alcohol on him. On Wednesday she said that security and police protecting Zuma were only doing their job, which was to “over-react”. Unsurprisingly, Peense went for a beer after the judgement was handed down and he’d heard Mpikeleli say he should be remanded in prison until his sentencing took place in September. Both Peense and the magistrate could actually have used a shot or two of absinthe.

The winner – Anders Breivik

In Afrikaans, the word “Anders” means “different”. And Anders Breivik is certainly one different individual. It must be driving him insane, err, I mean more insane, sitting alone in solitary confinement and wondering about the success of his crimes. I’m sure he’ll have a good idea about what damage he has caused, but knowing the “success” of their actions helps with these kinds of sociopath’s dopamine stimulation levels. They’ll be denying him this sort of information in prison and it must be eating him up. Anders, you must have been at the stage where you were surviving off absinthe alone to do something like this.