Death – (2012 winner) vs Mother Nature
This is the match. This
is always the biggie for me here at M.A.M.S.
Death has won the award the most times and last year’s hands down
victory was a given in that I had neither the time nor the energy to even consider
counting down the biggest d-bags of the year.
Newtown and a host of other events last year drained my will to want to
remember what all happened and I simply gave Death the win. In all seriousness, he probably would have won,
regardless. So, back again for another
try, he takes on the only force he can evenly be matched with, Mother Nature.
Death did not take a holiday in 2013.
We give famous people their due on Social Media with posting
that they died. 2013 was no
different. Paul Walker, Nelson Mandela,
Ray Price, Peter O’Toole, Joan Fontaine, Tom Laughlin, Eleanor Parker, Frederick
Sanger, Syd Field, Doris Lessing, Mike McCormack, Lou Reed, Marcia Wallace,
Noel Harrison, Ed Lauter, Tom Clancy, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Ray Dolby, Sid
Bernstein, Elmore Leonard, Eydie Gorme, Karen Black, Harry Byrd, Eileen
Brennan, J.J. Cale, Ray Manzarek, Dennis Farina, Helen Thomas, Cory Monteith,
Jim Kelly, Alan Myers, Gary David Goldberg, James Gandolfini, and Slim Whitman
are just a few. But then you just have
to realize that normal, everyday, wonderful and amazing people die, like Talia
Castellano, the teenager who faced down cancer and became a Cover Girl model
while undergoing chemotherapy also died.
And several people died at the hands of gun violence over the past year. Death
truly is a douche bag.
But Mother Nature.. she’s a real bitch.
An earthquake and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, Typhoon
Phailin in India, Hurricanes Manuel and Ingrid, and tornadoes across the United
States claimed the lives of over 6000 people alone this year. And while those deaths could be chalked up in…
um, Death’s column, these were due to natural disasters. The Earth renewed its vow to kill us without
even blinking and that is enough to make Mother Nature eek by with a win in
this round.
Congratulations, Mother Nature, you took down our reigning
champ. Now, don’t so much as breathe in
2014.
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