Idiot for the day

Slate has an article by Joshua Keating about Mos Def (photo), who's Mos-tly stupid:

The Associated Press reports that Yasiin Bey (photo), the rapper and actor formerly known as Mos Def, was arrested at the international airport in Cape Town, South Africa, and has been given fourteen days to leave the country after violating immigration laws. After relocating to South Africa in 2013, he overstayed his visitor’s permit and was arrested after trying to use an unrecognized “world passport” when trying to leave the country.
What’s that? Glad you asked: As Slate’s Daniel Engber explained in 2006, the Washington, DC-based World Service Authority issues world passports to people who, for whatever reason, prefer not to claim citizenship in any particular country. Only about six countries formally recognize the passport, although, according to the WSA, more than 180 countries, including South Africa, have accepted them on at least one occasion. Actually traveling with one, as Engber wrote, is a bit of a crapshoot and “chances of success will likely depend on the whim (or ignorance) of the schlub working Customs at your destination.” (It wasn't clear from the initial coverage if Bey was using one of the WSA’s passports or one issued by some other authority, but al-Jazeera's Atossa Abrahamian confirms that it was from WSA. )

Rico says he's a lucky idiot...