IT WAS an extraordinarily good year… for odd, inexplicable, idiotic behavior… yet one that turned out just fine in the end. And I am not just talking about the elections.
Millions of women in countries the world over fell in love with a novel in which a marriage went terribly wrong. Apple decided to omit google maps from its Operating system. The novel in which the marriage went terribly wrong became the best selling paper back in history.
Judgement day finally arrived for the beloved man who killed hundreds in a bomb blast. After contemplation over years, the Indian government finally thought of it to be a fair deal for death to one in return of death that came to a ton. Judgement day finally also arrived for Twinkies in the United States. Now you have to go to Canada to get them.
And Book Wire and Publishers Weekly, both venerable institutions which usually don’t go for this sort of thing, named the author of the novel in which a marriage went terribly wrong the Publishing Person of the year. It was that kind of year.
GoDaddy showed early support for the online piracy act and surprised everyone. As a result hundreds of sites joined boycott and in protest moved away from GoDaddy.
Idiocy as always was on full display in professional sports. Jeremy Lin played with such verve and passion that he created a global phenomenon called “Linsanity”. Then they traded him to Houston. Oh and Whitney Houston died this year too. What coincidence.
Idiocy was especially rampant in politics. The American Dream became the Americian Dream, hence Obama got re elected.
The 20th employee of google became the 1st pregnant fortune 500 CEO, while inspiring the rest of us on how to take up motherhood for 2 kids at the same time. And Twitter suspended journalist for tweeting the Olympic presidents email address. So much for social networking.
Queen Elizabeth 2, or someone resembling her, parachuted out of a helicopter to help launch the London Olympics. The Queen’s reward for this was having to listen to “Hope I die before I get old”. No irony intended.
2012…was idiocy your other name?
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