Tara Reid has got to be one of my favorite idiots ever. She’s always seemed plastic and empty, but it turns out that Tara’s idiocy is more than skin deep. Tara Reid is so stupid that she actually thinks the writers’ strike is still going on. The very same strike that ended in mid-February. Nine months ago. The weirdest part is that Tara seems to have relatively current information about the economy. And then ties together her massively out-of-date information with current events into some bizarre theory about how she’ll start working once the strike is over and the economy is better. Probably best to wait until all those head wounds heal too.

Someone needs to tell Tara Reid that the writers’ strike has been over for quite a while now, because it seems the “American Pie” actress didn’t get the memo.

“I totally plan to go back into acting once the strike stops,” Reid told Pop Tarts last week at Eva Longoria-Parker’s Padres Contra El Cancer’s 8th Annual “El Sueno De Esperanza” benefit gala in Hollywood. “The economy is so bad right now that people are afraid to put money back into acting. Even the shows that seem new, they really shot six months ago. So when it’s all back up again, I will go back into it. That’s my heart,” she said.

So instead of performing, Tara has been busy in her new career as a fashion designer … inspired by “The Secret.”

“I have a clothing line coming out called Mantra by Tara Reid. It’s like the book ‘The Secret’ — the whole line is about colors,” she explained. “Red means love, blue means love, white is peace, black means protection. So when you wear these colors, you might attract love, or green, you’ll get lucky tonight. You put the energy out there, that’s what the line is all about.”

[From Fox News’ Pop Tarts]

Tara’s statement that “‘The economy is so bad right now that people are afraid to put money back into acting,’” is about the economy and is true and accurate information. Her next sentence “‘Even the shows that seem new, they really shot six months ago’” is about the writers’ strike, and hasn’t been correct for a long, long time. And the thing about going back into acting when “it’s all back up again” would be nice, if it weren’t for the fact that it’s “all been back up again” for months.

I’m assuming someone told Tara the strike is still going on and that’s why she’s not working. It’s like a parent telling their kid they took their dog to live on a farm instead of saying, “Sweetheart, Daddy ran over the dog.” You say things like that to children – and people with the mental capacity of children – to soften the blow. As long as Tara still thinks the strike is going on, she won’t wonder why no one will put her in her films.

I wonder what color will attract money or work according to Tara’s clothing line? The clothes she has been wearing definitely look like working girl clothes, but not for their colors. Whatever it is, I suggest that Tara start wearing it night and day.

Here’s Tara leaving Il Pastaio restaurant in Beverly Hills last Wednesday. Images thanks to WENN.