(Friends in weird places…)
Gods, but he sure as Hell knows how to pick them:
“Hard on the heels of a Holocaust denial row, Pope Benedict XVI has appointed an ultra-conservative bishop in Austria who described Hurricane Katrina as God’s punishment for sin and sexual excess in New Orleans.
Father Gerhard Maria Wagner, 54, a parish priest at Windischgarsten in Austria since 1988, said in the parish newsletter four years ago that the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina was “divine retribution” for excessive sexual permissiveness, including tolerance of homosexuality.”
All of which made me realize that this would make for another interesting list: The worst picks in history, or some such.
Which could include old Papa Bush picking Dan Quayle as his running mate (or McCain going for Sarah Palin, of course.)
Still, if you think those were marriages made in Hell, spare a moment’s thought for Paul McCartney, who chose Heather Mills for a wife and then had to cough up £24.3 million to get rid of her again…
Some casting couch cretin choosing Kevin Costner to play Robin Hood was pretty bad as well - and, staying with movies: The decision to select both the script and the leading lady of ‘The Hottie and the Nottie’ was not exactly divinely inspired (not by any God with a sane flock of believers, anyway.)
Hollywood handing out Oscars for best movie and best actor to the contemptible Forrest Gump was truly awful - especially when you know that the other nominees were ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘The Shawshank Redemption’. Hell, even ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ was far better than that dreadful Tom Hanks vehicle.
By the way, and going for the Mother of all Bad Picks: God creating man and appointing him captain of Spaceship Earth was probably not His most inspired moment either.
Okay, so, those were all some highly dubious choices and God awful decisions but here’s my question to you: What would make it on YOUR list of history’s worst picks?
(And the patron saint of awful choices is…)
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